Iranian diplomat convicted of planning attack on opposition

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — An Iranian official has been convicted of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in 2018 and sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court. It rejected his claim of diplomatic immunity. Assadollah Assadi, a Vienna-based diplomat detained in Belgium, refused to testify during his trial last year, invoking his status. He did not attend Thursday’s hearing at the Antwerp courthouse. Prosecutors had requested