In a striking address before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Dutch Member of Parliament Julissa Elian delivered explosive testimony confirming a dangerous reality that RAIR Foundation USA has documented for years: the Islamic Republic of Iran is orchestrating assassination plots and proxy violence against political dissidents in Europe using criminal gangs and terror networks operating on Western soil.
Elian’s remarks came in direct response to an Iranian delegate who had accused Israel of being “the absolute evil and main source of terror and insecurity in our region.” The accusation, loaded with propaganda, was immediately dismantled by Elian’s bold intervention, exposing Iran’s vast infrastructure of repression and extraterritorial violence.
“Two of my family members in Iran were executed,” Elian told the Council. “And in my country, the Netherlands, we witnessed the killings of Iranian dissidents.”
He cited the 2015 assassination of Ali Motamed and the 2017 murder of Ahmad Mola Nissi, both of whom were executed in the Netherlands in operations widely believed to be directed by Tehran’s intelligence services. Elian also referenced additional attacks in Spain and attempted killings in her own country, incidents corroborated by intelligence agencies in the Netherlands, France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
“Iran is hiring criminal gangs to carry out violent attacks here in Europe,” she stated plainly. “Will you confront Iran over the use of terror against dissidents and Jews?”
His testimony underscored a damning figure: at least 975 executions were carried out in Iran in 2023, including children. But Iran’s brutality does not stop at its borders. According to Elian and mounting evidence across the continent, Tehran is exporting its reign of terror: intimidating, assassinating, and in some cases sexually brutalizing those it considers enemies of the regime.
Iran’s Terror Network: Confirmed by Intelligence, Exposed by RAIR
RAIR Foundation has previously reported on numerous disturbing patterns of Iranian aggression in the West, including:
- Assassinations of political exiles on European soil that mirror Iranian state executions.
- Organized gang rapes of male dissidents in Germany, acts believed to be regime-sanctioned psychological operations intended to degrade and silence.
- Stalking, surveillance, and intimidation of diaspora activists, including those with refugee status or dual citizenship.
These were once treated as isolated crimes. They are now being recognized as part of a coordinated foreign policy of terror executed through transnational proxies.
“If you truly value the right to life,” Elian told the Council, “then you must expose Iran’s strategy of hiring assassins to strike fear into anyone who dares to oppose them.”
In her closing remarks, Elian turned to the Iranian people themselves:
“You have the right to be free from tyranny and oppression. We stand with you.”
Public Execution, Private Networks
Elian’s testimony aligns with longstanding RAIR Foundation USA investigations and confirms what security experts have quietly warned for years: Iran is not just executing its own citizens, it is targeting its enemies abroad through a web of covert operations and proxy violence. These networks are frequently enabled by criminal syndicates, some operating in immigrant communities, others embedded through cross-border trafficking and ideological alliances.
Even more chilling is that these actions are often dismissed or downplayed by Western media and governments in the name of diplomatic negotiations, nuclear talks, or appeasement.
A Broader Strategy: What Iran Told Us Years Ago
This is not a new strategy. Iran’s military planners have spoken openly—on camera—about their intent to destabilize the West from within.
In a now-suppressed clip, Hassan Abbasi, a senior strategist for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), issued a stunning declaration:
“We’re sending sleeper cells into America. Even if you deport all Muslims, you can’t stop us. Only eleven men carried out 9/11—we can do the same. We don’t need nukes. We’re working with Mexicans.”
Abbasi laid out the regime’s playbook: asymmetric warfare through sleeper cells, guerrilla tactics, border infiltration, and civil collapse via chaos and division. Despite the public nature of his remarks, Western media refused to amplify them, and U.S. politicians looked the other way.
Elian’s speech before the UN brings Abbasi’s threats into sharper focus. The killings in the Netherlands, the attacks in Spain, the gang rapes in Germany, and the rising surveillance of Jewish and Iranian opposition figures are all part of this long-declared strategy.
The Cost of Silence
Elian’s testimony may prove to be a turning point. For too long, world leaders have ignored Iran’s extraterritorial crimes, obsessed with salvaging deals and “engagement.” But as Tehran’s agents walk the streets of Europe and its proxies sow fear among dissidents and Jews alike, the price of appeasement has become untenable.
It is time for the West to treat the Islamic Republic as the transnational terror regime it is.
RAIR will continue to expose these operations, give voice to the regime’s victims, and demand accountability from Western institutions that have long chosen silence over justice.
