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An Iranian who claimed diplomatic immunity from prosecution was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court on Thursday for an attempted 2018 bombing in Paris.
The court in Antwerp convicted Assadollah Assadi, who was attached to the Iranian mission in Austria when he supplied explosives for the planned attack on a rally organized by exiled Iranian opposition activists in the French capital.
His conviction is the first time an Iranian official has been sentenced for terrorism in the European Union since Iran’s 1979 revolution, and it comes as President Joe Biden is considering whether to rejoin the historic 2015 nuclear accord and to lift the sanctions on Iran that were reimposed by his predecessor Donald Trump.
When a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol
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Forgotten in the wake of January 6 In the furor over the January 6 riot, which Sen. Mitt Romney called an “insurrection incited by the president of the United States,” a more serious assault on the Capitol has been overlooked. For those who weren’t around or may have forgotten, here’s what went down on the evening of November 7, 1983. “Listen carefully, I’m only going to tell you this one time,” a caller from the “Armed Resistance Unit,” told the operator at the Capitol switchboard. “There is a bomb in the Capitol building. It will go off in five minutes. Evacuate the building.” A Senate document, “Bomb Explodes in Capitol,” describes what happened.
Dominion Voting Systems Sues Giuliani For $1.3 Billion Over False Election Claims, May Sue Trump
01/25/21 AT 1:14 PM
Dominion Voting Systems on Monday said it filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani over what it called his big lie campaign, spreading false statements of massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Giuliani served as former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and helped craft a misleading narrative that the Nov. 3 election was riddled with fraud. Before supporters of the president stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6, Giuliani called for a “trial by combat” to challenge the results.
Giuliani has made countless claims about the integrity of the election, saying at one point that Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems Inc. originated in Venezuela as part of a campaign to rig the election.