Saturday 27 July 2013

The Netherlands spied on Iranian embassy

The Dutch intelligence service AIVD has been releasing a lot of information on their movements in the lasts years. The AIVD was spying on the Iranian embassy as the AIVD was interested in knowing what the dutch people were doing in Iran.
That an ambassador is bugged is not unique, writes the newspaper on the authority of sources in the intelligence world. But it is a sensitive issue, because it can harm. Diplomatic relations with a country It may also negatively affect the image of the Netherlands, where many international bodies are established.

Ambassador Kazem Gharib Abadi

Kazem Gharib Abadi
Former Foreign Minister Ben Bot (CDA) is not surprised that the Iranian ambassador has been tapped. "Obviously Netherlands do, especially in a case that is so sensitive. They will conversely not hesitate to do the same with us,". The Netherlands spied on Ambassador KAzen Gharib Abadi to get a better insight in the developments of Zahra Bahrami.

Zahra Bahram​i

Zahra Bahrami
Zahra Bahrami, also spelled Sahra Baahrami (Persian: زهرا بهرامی‎; c. 1965–2011) (Previous name: Zahra Mehrabi), was a dual Dutch and Iranian citizen who was executed in Iran, after being convicted by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of drug trafficking.
She was initially arrested in December 2009 for participating in the Ashura protests and charged with national security offenses and being a member of Kingdom Assembly of Iran. But according to the Iranian Judicatory, a subsequent search of her house uncovered 450 grams of cocaine, 420 grams of opium, and several forged passports. Subsequently, the Tehran prosecutors charged her with drug trafficking and being a member of an international drug-trafficking network, for which she was convicted. Bahrami also had a prior criminal record in the Netherlands. She had spent three years in jail in the Netherlands after trafficking 16 kilograms of cocaine after a flight from the Caribbean in 2003, and for forging passports in 2007.
In protest of her execution, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign affairs temporarily froze diplomatic contacts with Iran and resumed on February 18, 2011.

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