UK Conservative MP Calls Belgian Offer to Swap Iranian Terrorist ‘Shocking Development’

Bob Blackman also described Iran as the 'parent' of terrorist 'children' Hamas and Hezbollah

Conservative MPs David Jones (on table, second from left) and Bob Blackman (third from left) address a meeting on Iran at the Jubilee Room in Westminster Hall, London, on Jan. 30, 2023. Chris Summers/The Epoch Times

LONDON—A British MP who escaped death when an Iranian diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, was intercepted before he could bomb a rally of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Paris in 2018 has described it as “worrying” that Belgium was considering swapping Assadi for a Belgian citizen in an Iranian jail.

Earlier this month Olivier Vandecasteele, a humanitarian worker, was jailed for at least 12 years and given 74 lashes after being convicted of espionage following a secret trial in Iran.