1/5 Iranian diplomat was sentenced to 20 yrs in prison for plotting a deadly attack in France which US citizens attended, including Amb. Bill Richardson. This case is not an aberration but part of a pattern of the Tehran's terrorism in Europe & globally. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-plot-verdict/in-first-for-europe-iran-envoy-sentenced-to-20-year-prison-term-over-bomb-plot-idUSKBN2A419O?il=0

5/5 The message to the market is that it's just not safe to transact business with Iran while Tehran uses its diplomats and proxies to engage in criminal activity abroad.

4/5 Iran not only engages in massive human rights abuses at home, including forced false confessions and executions of innocent critics of the regime, it exports its revolution abroad.

3/5 European countries broke diplomatic ties w/ Iran after the 1992 assassination by Iranian operatives of 4 Kurdish dissidents at Mykonos restaurant in Berlin. A German court directly implicated Tehran for the murders. Should Europe allow Iranian terrorism today with impunity?

2/5 Iran has once again used not just the local population to engage in terrorism but its own diplomats to execute its horrific attacks.