Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and members of the Iranian diaspora in Europe held a rally on December 16, 2020 in Vienna, and Brussels. Iranians in Belgium, supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), held a protest rally in front of the European Union. They protested the supposed meeting of the Iranian regime’s Foreign Ministry with the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on December 16.

The meeting normally takes place in Palais Coburg in Vienna. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s meeting will be held virtually. Nevertheless, Iranians staged a protest.

“The important thing is that the idea of mending fences with a terrorist regime is still there. Individuals don’t count, the nature of this regime is terrorist, and it is a bad idea to deal with terrorists,” the protesters highlighted.

This meeting comes in the wake of the recent trial of Iran’s incarcerated diplomat-terrorist Assadollah Assadi, who is the third secretary at the regime’s embassy in Vienna. Assadi acted on the direct orders of the regime’s officials, particularly Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who facilitated Assadi’s attempt to bomb the opposition rally in 2018 in Paris. Prosecutors at the court in Antwerp, Belgium, where Assadi and his three accomplices went on trial, have demanded a 20-year sentence for Assadi.

While underlining the regime’s foiled bomb plot in 2018 and Assadi’s role, demonstrators demanded European countries shut down the Iranian regime’s embassies across Europe and expel the mullahs’ agents from the European Union member states.

Participants in Wednesday’s rally also underlined the Iranian regime’s violations of the JCPOA, the military dimensions of its nuclear program, keeping nuclear sites secret, its ballistic missiles program, its behavior as the leading state-sponsor of terrorism, particularly in Europe, and its blatant violations of human rights in Iran.