The Netherlands, the United States, and France, among others, are seeing more attempts by Iranian intelligence services to kill, kidnap, and harass European and American citizens. Iran is reportedly collaborating with criminal organizations and targeting, among others, journalists, civil servants, and Jews.
That is what the total of fourteen countries write in a joint statement. Besides the Netherlands, it is also signed by the US, the United Kingdom, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, and Sweden.
According to the countries, the Iranian intelligence services are working with criminal organizations to carry out attacks on American and European journalists, civil servants, Jewish citizens, and people with “deviant political opinions.”
“This is unacceptable,” the statement said. “We see these attacks, on whatever target, as an infringement of our sovereignty.”
The countries are working together to prevent Iranian attacks and are calling on the Iranian authorities to put an end to the threat.
Iran wanted to kidnap Belgian politician
Yesterday, the Belgian Public Prosecutor’s Office (OM) announced that it was investigating an alleged Iranian plan to kidnap Darya Safai, an Iranian-Belgian politician. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard planned to bring her to Tehran via Turkey.
Safai herself already said on X on Monday that she had been informed by the Belgian police and security services of an “alarming situation” regarding her safety.
The politician was one of the initiators of a draft resolution to place the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on the European list of terrorist organizations. The Belgian Committee on Foreign Relations of the Chamber adopted that resolution earlier this month.
Safai was born in Iran and fled to Belgium in 2000 because she was persecuted by the Iranian regime. “As a 25-year-old girl, I have already been imprisoned in your horrible prison,” she writes on X. “I fear for my life, but continue to fight for freedom.”