(Reuters) A Spanish former politician who survived a shooting attack said on Friday he believed Iran’s government had hired hitmen to assassinate him over his links to an Iranian dissident group.
Alejo Vidal-Quadras, who was shot outside his Madrid residence last Nov. 9, provided no evidence for the assertion.
Iran’s foreign ministry was not immediately available for comment, and police have not released details of an investigation under way into the attack.
Vidal-Quadras headed the conservative People’s Party in the Catalonia region in the 1990s, co-founded the far-right party Vox and was a [member] of the European Parliament between 1999 and 2014.
