An Iranian diplomat was arrested in a plot to blow up a massive 'freedom' event attended by Rudy Giuliani

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• An Iranian diplomat, along with five others, have been arrested over a plot to blow up an event of an exiled Iranian opposition group.
• The event for the National Resistance Council of Iran (NRCI), an Iranian opposition organization based in France, also featured Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
• The NCRI claimed the diplomat had been station chief of Iran's intelligence agency in Vienna. 

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An Iranian diplomat, along with five others, have been arrested over a plot to blow up an event of an exiled Iranian opposition group

The event for the National Resistance Council of Iran (NRCI), an Iranian opposition organization based in France, also featured President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

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