{"id":116685,"date":"2024-02-24T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=116685"},"modified":"2024-02-24T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T13:36:08","slug":"spanish-politician-shot-in-madrid-blames-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2024\/02\/24\/spanish-politician-shot-in-madrid-blames-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Politician Shot in Madrid Blames Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 MADRID, SPAIN \u2014 <\/span>A right-wing Spanish politician who was shot in November in Madrid on Friday accused Iran of being behind his attempted murder during his first public appearance since the attack.<\/p>\n

Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a founder of Spain’s far-right Vox party and former head of its center-right People’s Party in Catalonia who has long supported Iran’s opposition movement, was shot in the face in broad daylight near his home in the upscale Salamanca neighborhood on November 9 by a motorcycle passenger.<\/p>\n

“I have no doubt that it was the Iranian regime,” the 78-year-old, who was European Parliament vice president between 2009 and 2014, told a news conference in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n

Tehran has “a long tradition, a track record, of extraterritorial terrorist activities” against “dissidents and against foreigners who support then,” he added, without offering any proof to back up his claim.<\/p>\n

Four people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the shooting, but the suspected gunman \u2014 a French national of Tunisian origin with several previous convictions in France \u2014 remains at large.<\/p>\n

Police have not commented on a possible motive for the shooting.
\nVidal-Quadras, who already pointed the finger at Iran when he was questioned by police after the shooting, said it was a “miracle” that he survived.<\/p>\n

“I made a movement of my head that meant that the shot, which was supposed to be fatal, was not,” he said.<\/p>\n

The bullet entered one side of his jaw and exited the other, and Vidal-Quadras spent time in hospital recovering from a jaw fracture.<\/p>\n

“The detonation sounded like a thunderclap in my head, in fact I have a perforated eardrum, and I started bleeding, it caused a puddle on the floor,” he said.<\/p>\n

Vidal-Quadras said he believes the quick intervention of a passerby, who stopped the bleeding with a piece of clothing, saved his life.<\/p>\n

He said he has suffered from after effects since the shooting, including “some paralysis of the facial muscles.”<\/p>\n

Vidal-Quadras, a top member of the International Committee in Search of Justice that supports the “Iranian resistance,” has long called for the international community to harden its position toward Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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