It seems that hypocrisy has no limits in Tehran. Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian president known as ‘The Butcher of Tehran’ for his bloodstained role as an executioner, has accused Israel of a “clear violation of international relations” following the Israeli airstrike that killed seven senior members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the consular annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus. The five-story building was completely flattened on April 1, when six missiles were allegedly fired from Israeli F-35 warplanes. Israel has refused to comment.

For Raisi to complain about the violation of international relations is particularly laughable, given the case of Assadollah Assadi, a registered diplomat from the Iranian embassy in Vienna, who, together with three Iranian co-conspirators, was arrested in Belgium on terrorist charges after being caught in June 2018 handing over a professionally constructed and fully primed TATP bomb and ordering his co-conspirators to detonate it at a huge Iranian opposition rally in Paris. Assadi was given the maximum sentence of 20 years and then shamefully released in a contrived prisoner-swap deal after the mullahs’ regime kidnapped a young Belgian charity worker and used him as a hostage to secure the release of their terrorist ‘hero’ who was welcomed home by Raisi himself.

As the leading global sponsor of terrorism, the Iranian regime is in no position to accuse........

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