Austria asks Tehran to lift the immunity of an Iranian diplomat suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to bomb a rally by an exiled Iranian opposition group in France.
The diplomat, who is based at the embassy in Vienna, was detained in Germany on Saturday.
Vienna delivers the request to “lift the immunity of the Iranian diplomat” to Iran’s ambassador to Austria, who is summoned to the foreign ministry after news of the alleged plot emerged on Monday, a ministry spokesman says.
Austria also informs Iran that the diplomat would be “deprived of his diplomatic status within 48 hours because of the existence of a European arrest warrant” against him, says the spokesman, Matthias Forenbacher.
The diplomat was one of six people arrested in Belgium, France and Germany over the alleged plot.
The apparent foiled attack was to have targeted a meeting of thousands of Iranian opposition supporters in a northern suburb of the French capital that was also attended by leading US figures, including close allies of President Donald Trump.
— AFP
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