Assadi was sentenced in Belgium two years ago to 20 years in prison for plotting a 2018 explosive attack in Paris.

Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/04/belgium-looking-irans-request-prisoner-swap

Assadolah Assadi was found guilty of attempted terrorism after a foiled plot to bomb a rally of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), opposed to the Islamic Republic, near Paris in June 2018.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/iran-sentences-detained-belgian-to-40-years-in-jail---tasnim/article_0376eac6-7dfc-5fe5-aee7-cf4d57144a20.html

Last week, a prisoner exchange between Belgium and Iran returned to Tehran an Iranian diplomat convicted of attempting to bomb exiles in France, Assadollah Assadi.

Source: https://www.chroniclejournal.com/news/world/iran-releases-1-danish-2-austrian-citizens-in-operation-involving-oman-belgium/article_72074109-6bbc-527e-bd9b-1893ef761c1f.html

Nunez's letter put the July 1 NCRI rally in the context of the abortive plot led by Vienna-based Iranian diplomat Assadolah Assadi in October 2018 and three others.

Source: https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Exclusive-Citing-attack-threat-France-bans-Iranian-opposition-rally-document--44142807/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20230619