Mossad helped foil attack on Iranian opposition rally in Paris: report

Israel's spy agency, Mossad, helped several European countries in a terrorist attack in Paris suburb last week, Israeli media reported on Thursday.

Six people were arrested in Belgium, France and Germany, plotting to target a gathering of According to Israeli Hadashot TV Mossad helped intelligence agencies in France, Belgium, and Germany track the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

Mossad's badistance with a bombing, Hadashot reported.

Belgian police believe the man arrested at a hotel in Paris, identified only as Merhad A. aged 54, is an accomplice of a husband and wife team caught in Brussels in possession of 500 grams of explosive explosive TATP and a detonator.

The couple were identified as Amir S., 38, and Nasimeh N., 33.

Separate, German police swooped on an Iranian diplomat based in Assadollah Assadi (19659002)

German prosecutors believe Assadi, believed to be an intelligence agent, ordered the couple to attack the rally and had the explosives at a June meeting in Luxembourg.

Assadi The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security is one of the members of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, which is tasked with "observation and fight against opposition groups inside and outside Iran", the prosecutors' report said.

Tehran has dismissed the alleged bomb plot as a "sinister false flag ploy" designed to discredit Iran at a time when it faces major diplomatic tensions with the United States.

The rally in the Paris suburb of Villepinte was attended by several allies of US President Donald Trump, including training New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and former House speaker Newt Gingrich, both of them in the United States.

Merhad A. was questioned by French police for three days before being taken into custody. He was arrested by police acting on an anonymous tip-off (19659002) In his phone he had an Austrian SIM card with just one