The Spanish National Court is prosecuting eight individuals over the attempted assassination of Professor Alejo Vidal-Quadras in November 2023.
A judge in Spain’s Supreme Court has charged eight individuals with attempting to assassinate Alejo Vidal-Quadras, former Vice President of the European Parliament, in 2023 due to his ties with opponents of Iran’s regime. The attempt ultimately failed.
Investigations reveal that the attackers targeted the politician as a warning to prevent Spain and the European Union from supporting the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the main opposition to Iran’s regime.
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The judge firmly concludes: they were commissioned to carry out the attack in retaliation for Dr. Vidal-Quadras’s political activities in support of the NCRI and also as a warning to the Spanish government and the EU not to shelter opposition affiliates whom Iran’s regime labels as terrorists.
Judge Santiago Pedraz confirms the theory that the assassination attempt was directly linked to Vidal-Quadras being a prominent European figure opposing Iran’s regime.
Iran’s regime has been involved in a series of covert operations aimed at tracking, intimidating, and even assassinating dissidents, critics, and dissenting voices beyond its borders.
The investigating judge provides detailed explanations of how those involved set up the infrastructure for the assassination attempt.
Naraya Gómez was also involved in renting vehicles and purchasing equipment used for surveillance in the attempted assassination of Vidal-Quadras.
Part of the funding was provided by Shahinaz Kadid, who traveled to Spain in October to join the tracking operation of the former Vice President of the European Parliament.
The investigating judge stated that the attack was ordered by unknown individuals seeking revenge for Vidal-Quadras’s support of the resistance against Iran’s religious dictatorship.
