Darya Safai, a Belgian-Iranian member of Brussels's Parliament, alleged that Iranian forces were planning to kidnap her in Turkey in a Monday statement.
“Today, the Belgian police and security services contacted me regarding an alarming situation concerning my safety. They had received worrying information indicating that the Islamic regime in Iran wants to kidnap me and take me to Tehran,” she posted on X/Twitter.
Safai, who was already detained in an Iranian prison by the Islamic Republic in 1999, also said that the regime planned to “kidnap, torture, and execute a member of parliament from a European country. Or to use it as a bargaining chip in their hostage diplomacy.”
This comes after a resolution designating Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization was approved in Belgium.
“You are now at your weakest ever,” Safai continued, addressing the regime, adding that she was fighting for "... a West without your terror and crimes. And for a real ally in the region, instead of a terrorist state. For a world without your dogmas.”
She ended her statement by promising that "we will prevail, no matter what,” and calling for a regime change in Iran.
The story of Safai in an Iranian prison
“As a young girl of 25, I was imprisoned in your terrible prison. I know very well what monsters you are, and I know that you torture, rape, and murder,” she added.
In another post, Safai described the prisons and added that she was “marginalized as a woman by Islam as a second-rate gender.”
“When I was detained in Tehran in 1999 in the ayatollahs' prison, I could never have imagined that one could also be imprisoned in the West for the same reason,” she wrote.
“In the West, under the guise of religious freedom, the radical Muslims try to further perpetuate their discriminatory views, especially against women. And anyone who criticizes them is called polarizing, stigmatizing, and Islamophobic.”