Två iranska agenter planerade att mörda judar i Sverige

Iran bedriver främst flykting- och industrispionage mot Sverige.

Den iranska statens flyktingspionage i Sverige är riktat mot minoritetsgrupper som den iranska regimen uppfattar som ett hot. Den iranska regimen använder sina underrättelsetjänster för att bedriva säkerhetshotande verksamhet i Sverige. Det handlar till exempel om att kartlägga regimkritiker och mål i Sverige kopplade till oppositionella grupper som av Iran bedöms vara eller kunna vara regimdestabiliserande.

Den iranska ledningens primära mål är att trygga regimens fortlevnad genom att bemöta inre och yttre hot var än sådana identifieras, så även i Sverige. Oppositionsgrupper i exil betraktas som ett inre hot, lokaliserade utanför landets gränser. Sådana grupper och personer finns i Sverige.

I en internationell kontext finns flera exempel på hur den iranska ledningens agerande utgjort fara för liv och hälsa för personer. Planering och förberedelser för detta har bedrivits i Sverige.

Enligt Migrationsverket var de afghanska medborgare, men säkerhetspolisen har nu konstaterat att det inte stämmer. Paret som misstänks för stämpling till terrorbrott är medborgare i Iran.

– De har sedan de kom till Sverige åberopat falska identitetshandlingar gentemot alla svenska myndigheter som de varit i kontakt med, säger åklagaren Hans Ihrman.

Assadi, 48, was a senior officer in Iran’s version of MI6, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), where he worked in Department 312, responsible for international assassinations. He was appointed third secretary at Tehran’s embassy in Vienna in 2014.

He used his diplomatic status as a cover while building up and running a spy ring, holding rendezvous with agents in 22 cities across 11 European countries before he was apprehended in his hire car on 1 July 2018.
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One of the spy chief’s priorities was to monitor and undermine the activities of a coalition of exiled Iranian opposition groups, the National Council of Resistance (NCRI), and the most effective of its member organisations, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK).
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After a period of widespread civil unrest over New Year 2018 in Iran that was blamed on opposition groups, Assadi was ordered to retaliate by bombing the NCRI’s annual “Free Iran” rally in Paris, with the aim of assassinating its leader, Maryam Rajavi.

The rally was to be attended by tens of thousands of opponents of the regime, as well as British and American politicians, including former environment secretary Theresa Villiers and Rudi Giuliani, former mayor of New York.
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The spymaster, who had learned to handle explosives while serving in Iraq, went from Vienna to Iran repeatedly in early 2018 as the plans took shape.
In March of that year, he met Belgian-Iranian agents Amir Saadouni, 40, and his wife Nasimeh Naami, 36, on a train from Vienna to Salzburg and briefed them on the bomb plot.

The pair had been recruited in 2007 and had met Assadi regularly since 2015 to hand over intelligence about opposition activists, receiving more than €200,000 (£173,000) for their services.
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Assadi then made several trips to Iran where the bomb — which contained more than one pound of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), an explosive often used by terrorists that is hard to trace — was being designed and built.
He took the device on a commercial flight from Tehran to Vienna in his diplomatic pouch, which is exempt from security screening.

On 28 June, he met Saadouni and Naami in a Pizza Hut in Luxembourg, where he handed over the bomb, codenamed “the PlayStation”, as well as €11,710 (£10,000) in cash.
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On 30 June, the day of the attack, Saadouni and Naami were arrested by the VSSE, Belgium’s state security service, in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre near Brussels.
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The plot, which fully came to light in court in February, was foiled after the Mossad was believed to have tipped off European investigators, who began to investigate Assadi.

Den iranske diplomaten Assadollah Assadi, 49, döms till 20 års fängelse för att ha planerat ett bombdåd mot en demonstration utanför Paris.

Vid tidpunkten arbetade han vid den iranska ambassaden i Wien.
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Han misstänks vara en general vid en iransk myndighet som sysslar med bland annat informationsinhämtning och säkerhetsarbete, enligt The Guardian.

Attacken var planerad mot en demonstration med över 25 000 deltagare i Villepinte norr om Paris. På plats för demonstrationen fanns även flera brittiska parlamentariker, skriver The Guardian.
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Belgisk polis fick nys om attacken när de stoppade ett par i en bil, Amir Saadouni, 40, och Nasimeh Naami, 36, med ett halvt kilo sprängämnen och en detonator i juni 2018.