Hamid Naghashan

Hamid Naghashan is alleged in Belgian and Austrian intelligence reporting to have operated as a Ministry of Intelligence officer from the Iranian Embassy in Vienna. He has been named in connection with the network of Iranian intelligence activity in Europe that included Assadollah Assadi, who served as MOIS station chief in Vienna from 2014 to 2018 and was convicted in Belgium for the 2018 Villepinte bomb plot. Naghashan maintains a low public profile and details remain limited to intelligence and law-enforcement reporting.