Iran's ambassador to Berlin was summoned to the Foreign Ministry, a source close to German diplomacy said yesterday (Thursday), the day it was announced the execution of a young man involved in the protests that have shaken the Islamic Republic since September.
No details of what was negotiated were made public.
Earlier yesterday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock decried on Twitter that "nhumanity of the Iranian regime knows no bounds."
Mohsen Sakari[/B] "was tried and executed in a perforated summary process for disagreeing with the regime," the German diplomatic chief continued in an indignant tone. "But the threat of execution will not stifle people's desire for freedom," she added."
Iranian authorities executed a man accused of wounding a paramilitary with a knife and blocking a highway in Tehran yesterday (Thursday), the first time since the start of the mass protests rocking the country.
The Islamic Republic has become a theatre of mass demonstrations that are being suppressed in blood. The trigger for this protest movement was the death on 16 September of Mahsha Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, at the hands of the vice police.
In another development, the Belgian Constitutional Court announced yesterday (Thursday) that it had "suspended" the validity of a controversial Belgian-Iranian agreement that was thought to pave the way for the exchange of an Iranian diplomat convicted of "terrorism" in Belgium in 2021 for a Belgian humanitarian worker who was unjustly imprisoned in the Islamic Republic this year.
"There is no longer currently a legal basis to allow the transfer," François Tulkin, who on behalf of Iranian dissidents appealed to the highest judicial body against a law passed on 30 July 2022 that included the deal, told Agence France-Presse with satisfaction.
The "suspension" of the law is a preliminary step towards the eventual annulment of the deal. The Constitutional Court is expected to rule on the issue within three months, the lawyer explained.
Diplomat Asadullah Assadi, who is allegedly in fact an Iranian intelligence officer, was sentenced in February 2021 by a court in Antwerp (north) to serve 20 years in prison.
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