Iran’s blackmail of Belgium is odious and intolerable
The fate of Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele and that of the Iranian diplomat imprisoned in Belgium are inextricably linked. This has obviously been decided by the unscrupulous regime that reigns in Tehran.
By Baudouin Loos
JHow far will the Islamic Republic of Iran go in its odious blackmail against Belgium? A man, humanitarian worker Olivier Vandecasteele, has suffered a despicable fate in Iran since February 18, 2022 for the one and only reason that the Iranian regime intends to exchange him for one of its diplomats, Assadollah Assadi, who is serving a 20-year sentence. prison sentenced for terrorism by an Antwerp court in 2021.
The Iran of the ayatollahs has long practiced despicable “hostage diplomacy”. Not without success, by the way. This dictatorship was able to recover several of its agents sentenced to criminal terms in the West which it exchanged for incarcerated foreign nationals, always conclusively. In some cases, sums of money have been paid by the States involved.
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