Iran’s Message to France

France just learned that President Trump had a point when he warned that the 2015 Iran nuclear deal “didn’t bring calm, it didn’t bring peace and it never will.”

Paris this week publicly accused Tehran of plotting to bomb an Iranian opposition group’s rally near the French capital in June. As a first sanction, the French government froze assets belonging to two suspected Iranian intelligence operatives and to officials in Iran’s spy ministry.

Two Belgian nationals of Iranian origin were caught with explosives and a trigger device in the foiled plot to terrorize the June 30 rally against the Iranian regime, at which 25,000 people showed. An Iranian diplomat was arrested soon after.

Now Paris is certain the planning went all the way to Tehran. A plot of “such extreme seriousness on French territory could not be let go without a response,” France’s ministers of foreign affairs, interior and finance said in a joint statement.

A spokesman for Tehran’s foreign ministry calls it a nefarious effort “aimed at spoiling the good and developing relations between Iran and Europe.”

Well, yes: France and other European powers have been trying to end-run US sanctions on Tehran after Trump pulled America out of the nuke deal. Yet Iran was

willing to sponsor terror on French soil. Maybe President Emmanuel Macron should rethink his efforts to save the deal.