Thursday, February 4, 2021

In first for Europe, Iran envoy sentenced to 20-year prison term over bomb plot

An Iranian diplomat accused of planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled opposition group has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.


It's the first trial of an Iranian official for suspected terrorism in Europe since Iran's 1979 revolution.


Ross Cullen reports.


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