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{"id":1021,"date":"2021-10-18T21:41:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T21:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alb.noo.mybluehost.me\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2021-10-18T21:41:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T21:41:45","slug":"tehrans-spy-arrested-in-sweden-a-grim-reminder-of-rooted-terrorism-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iac-va.org\/tehrans-spy-arrested-in-sweden-a-grim-reminder-of-rooted-terrorism-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran\u2019s Spy Arrested in Sweden: A Grim Reminder of Rooted Terrorism in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI | Mahmoud Hakamian | Sept. 25, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Swedish newspapers, including Aftonbladet and Expressen, reported that a former Swedish security police chief had been arrested for spying on behalf of the Iranian regime between 2011 and 2015. His arrest once again highlights the need for a joint-European action to address the Iranian regime\u2019s terrorism. As identified by local and Persian language websites, the arrested spy is Peyman Kia, 40 years old. He had obtained Swedish citizenship and worked as a director in the Swedish Security Police (SPO) and an analyst in a Swedish military organization while he was spying for Tehran.<br \/>\nKia was arrested on Monday. On Thursday, the court decided to order detention for this person on charges of grossly and unlawfully abusing his position as someone with access to classified information and violating national security to avoid him destroying documents or escaping. The arrested person is accused of espionage for reasonable reasons, the Swedish Security Service said in a statement.<br \/>\nHis arrest comes a month after the arrest of an Iranian couple, who had obtained refugee status in Sweden by presenting a false Afghan identity. They were the agents of the regime\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).<br \/>\nIn February 2021, a court in Antwerp, Belgium, condemned Assadollah Assadi and his three accomplices to nearly 70 years of prison for attempting to bomb the Iranian opposition\u2019s rally in 2018 in France. Assadi was a Vienna-based diplomat-terrorist who had used his diplomatic privileges to smuggle 500 grams of the TATP explosives to Europe and handed over to his two operatives, Amir Sadouni and Nasimeh Na\u2019ami. Sadoun and Na\u2019ami, along with another operative, Mehrdad Arefani, had obtained Belgian citizenship and posed as supporters of the Iranian opposition movement.<br \/>\nAssadi\u2019s trial and conviction once again highlighted what the Iranian Resistance had said for years: the regime\u2019s embassies and diplomats are promoting terrorism and espionage. During Assadi\u2019s trial, the authorities in Germany, where Assadi was arrested in 2018, opened another case about a network of terrorism and espionage he had managed across Europe. The German officials found a notebook in Assadi\u2019s car with important information about the 2018 bomb plot, Assadi\u2019s actions travel, and the amounts of money he had given to different operatives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Iran&#039;s diplomat &amp; the largest terror plot in Europe. What was Assadollah Assadi&#039;s role\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eARv0qQMzWU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian Resistance\u00a0has specific information of the Iranian regime\u2019s sleeper cells across Europe, which Assadi commanded. The Iranian regime\u2019s MOIS has a network of agents in Europe supported by the regime\u2019s embassies that misuse their diplomatic facilities. Assadollah Assadi was at the head of the Iranian regime\u2019s intelligence network in Europe,\u201d Mr. Javad Dabiran, the deputy director of the\u00a0National Council of Resistance of Iran\u00a0(NCRI) representative office in Germany, told Al-Arabiya on January 22. \u201c40% and specifically 144 out of 289 meetings of Assadi with his agents were held in Germany. This implies two things. First, a large part of [the regime\u2019s] network is located in Germany, and Germany is the scene of the Iranian regime\u2019s terrorist activities,\u201d Mr. Dabiran added.<br \/>\nOn the eve of Assadi\u2019s conviction, another plot of the MOIS against the Iranian Resistance in Germany was revealed. The regime had tried to persuade Iranians residing in Germany to spy on the NCRI\u2019s office in Germany and Javad Dabiran, then receive \u201cgood money.\u201d<br \/>\nThe recent arrest of another spy in Sweden, holding a top security position, is the most recent in chains to arresting the regime\u2019s spies in Europe. It also implies how rooted the regime\u2019s espionage network is in Europe, overshadowed by the European leader\u2019s persistence on the failed appeasement policy toward Tehran.<br \/>\nIn July 2017, Ali Fallahian, the former head of the MOIS, acknowledged in an interview how the regime\u2019s agents work under many covers in Europe. \u201cThe ministry needs cover for its works to collect information both inside the country and outside. Obviously, we don\u2019t send an agent to Germany or America and, for example, say, ok, I am an agent of the information ministry, and I am here to collect information, please give that to me. He would work under cover of business or other jobs, including reporters. You know many of our reporters are the MOIS agents,\u201d Falahian said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Arrested Iranian agent Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi in U.S. is the tip of the iceberg\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGfzrIxTZzg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Arrested Iranian agent Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi in U.S. is the tip of the iceberg<br \/>\nAs revealed during Assadi\u2019s trial, the Iranian regime is involved in terrorism at top levels. On April 28, 2021, the regime\u2019s then-president Hassan Rouhani confirmed the regime\u2019s Supreme National Security Council takes all decisions regarding Tehran\u2019s malign activities.<br \/>\n\u201cAll the complex issues of foreign policy and the field of defense are discussed in the Supreme National Security Council, whether when we want to [carry out] a defensive operation and whether when we have to carry out an offensive operation somewhere or whether when we want to undertake an important political task,\u201d Rouhani acknowledged.<br \/>\nBefore Rouhani, his Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, who oversaw the 2018 bombing plot led by Assadi in Europe, acknowledged how his Ministry is entirely involved in terrorism and espionage in a leaked audiotape.<br \/>\nWhat you should know about Iran&#8217;s network of terrorists and spies in EU<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"What you should know about Iran&#039;s network of terrorists and spies in EU\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/guJCIqrfsoc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of our Foreign Ministry ambassadors have a security structure. Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been facing security issues since it began operating. The Foreign Ministry\u2019s agenda has been a political-security agenda since the beginning of the revolution. In the 1990s, they closed down the Ministry\u2019s economic directorate and instead created regional directors whose tendencies were more political and security-related,\u201d Zarif said. The European officials should take the recent arrest of another spy in Sweden seriously and consider it a mounting threat of terrorism from the regime.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, the European leaders are more concerned about keeping the dialogue with the Terrorist regime in Tehran. This comes when the regime\u2019s new government does not have the \u201cmoderate\u201d fa\u00e7ade anymore. The new Foreign Minister,\u00a0Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, has been considered a \u201cfield agent\u201d and is a known member of the terrorist \u201cQuds Force.\u201d Yet, the EU leaders, particularly Josep Borrell, the EU\u2019s chief diplomat, did not lose the chance of meeting and praising Amir-Abdollahian and the terrorist regime he represents during the recent United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The EU leaders should adopt a firm policy toward the regime. Appeasing this regime would only embolden it to continue its terrorist activities. As the Iranian Resistance has reiterated, the EU should close down the regime\u2019s embassies and expel its agents operating in the European Union under various pretexts. This would certainly increase the security of the EU\u2019s citizens.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/tehrans-spy-arrested-in-sweden-a-grim-reminder-of-rooted-terrorism-in-europe\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI | Mahmoud Hakamian | Sept. 25, 2021 Swedish newspapers, including Aftonbladet and Expressen, reported that a former Swedish security police chief had been arrested for spying on behalf of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,31,27,47,40],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tehran\u2019s Spy Arrested in Sweden: A Grim Reminder of Rooted Terrorism in Europe - IAC Virginia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/iac-va.org\/tehrans-spy-arrested-in-sweden-a-grim-reminder-of-rooted-terrorism-in-europe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tehran\u2019s Spy Arrested in Sweden: A Grim Reminder of Rooted Terrorism in Europe - 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