Tehran, Iran—Iranian lawmakers voted Wednesday to ratify a prisoner change treaty with Belgium, the place the deal has been criticized for doubtlessly enabling an Iranian diplomat jailed on terrorism costs to return residence.
Iran’s parliament accepted the treaty by 195 votes to 2, its Icana information company reported. Two weeks in the past, the Belgian parliament handed it by the a lot narrower margin of 79 votes to 41.
The Belgian opposition alleged the treaty was “tailor made” to allow the discharge of Assadollah Assadi, the diplomat sentenced final yr to twenty years in jail for orchestrating a foiled 2018 bomb plot concentrating on a gathering exterior Paris of Iran’s exiled opposition.
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