Saudi Arabia backed anti-Iran TV channel in Netherlands tied to terror convictions: report

(NL Times) Research by radio program Argos, the Danish public broadcaster DR and the Norwegian NRK has revealed that the anti-Iranian satellite channel Ahwazna TV in Rijswijk has been receiving money from the Saudi Arabian intelligence service.

The Danish-led wing of the Iranian opposition group, Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz (ASMLA), was discovered to have received money to finance its organization in Europe and its armed branch in Iran. The group’s aim is to lift up the oppressed Arab minority in the Iranian region of Khuzestan, and push for independence.

ASMLA leader Habib Jabor, alongside two others, was found guilty of spying and financing terrorism in Iran last week, cooperating with the Saudi intelligence service using the name MS32. Argos also broke the story that the group also spied on a number of people in the Netherlands.

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