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The AIVD tipped off the judiciary about Eisa S. (42). Justice suspects him that he made plans from a TV studio in Rijswijk to attack police officers, bank buildings and the Revolutionary Guard in Iran with hand grenades and small arms.
“We need bullets, we already have the irons.” Television presenter Eisa S. from Delft talked openly on the Telegram message service about firearms, explosives and targets. The Rotterdam court has determined that he wanted to set banks on fire, but also wanted to carry out attacks on high-ranking Iranians.
Possible targets
S. discussed possible targets and offered financial support. He also asked attackers to record the attacks. He wanted to use those images for the news channel he managed.
Eisa S. is a member of the Iranian resistance movement ASMLA, which has a branch in Delft. The man runs a television station that broadcasts about the movement and struggle for independence in Iran’s southwestern Ahwaz region.
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An attack on a Revolutionary Guards military parade in Ahwaz in 2018 killed 25 people. Iran held the ASMLA responsible. The Dutch branch stated that it had nothing to do with the attack.
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The ASMLA is also believed to be behind a major attack on a 2018 Revolutionary Guards military parade in Ahwaz. 25 people were killed. Iran held the ASMLA responsible and called the Dutch ambassador to the fore, because the group can move freely here. Members feared that Iran would carry out counter-actions against group members on Dutch territory. The Dutch branch stated that it had nothing to do with the attack.
‘Victim of Iranian conspiracy’
S. himself stated that he was the victim of an Iranian plot to smear him and thus render him harmless. He was tortured in Iran, fled that country and has been living in the Netherlands since 2014, where he works at ‘Ahwazna-tv’ about the liberation of the Ahwaz province, where the population does not speak Persian but Arabic.
Justice hit on a series of Telegram messages that talk about making weapons and explosives. Bullets were requested and targets discussed: a bus, a bank building, and most importantly, the hated Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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