FRANCE SANCTIONS IRANIAN OPERATIVES FOR TERROR BOMB PLOT: Tehran’s policy of violent meddling is once again backfiring.

France seized assets belonging to Iran’s intelligence services and two Iranian nationals in response to a June plot to attack an exiled Iranian opposition group’s rally outside Paris, the government said on Tuesday.

A senior French official said Paris had no doubt that elements of the Iranian state were behind the bomb plot and that it was likely to have been hatched by hardliners looking to undermine President Hassan Rouhani.

Even AFP sees the connection to America’s withdrawal from the Obama Administration’s ridiculous “Iran deal”:

The hardening of relations between Paris and Tehran could have deep consequences for Iran, coming at a time when Rouhani’s government is looking to European capitals to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal after the United States pulled out.

“An attempted attack in Villepinte was foiled on June 30. An incident of such gravity on our national territory could not go unpunished,” said a joint statement by the foreign, interior and economy ministries.

Violent meddling is an intrinsic feature of the ayatollah dictatorship. So read the whole thing.