Five Brit MPs escaped death after ‘Iranian diplomat smuggled a bomb on a commercial flight’

FIVE Brit MPs cheated death when a terror bomb plot was foiled.

An Iran diplomat goes on trial today accused of smuggling explosives on a commercial flight.

Agents planned to use the “Mother of Satan” device at a rally in Paris attended by a 35-strong British delegation.

Tory MPs Bob Blackman, Matthew Offord, Sir David Amess and Theresa Villiers and Labour’s Roger Godsiff were at the 2018 event.

Other guests included President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and leading US politician Newt Gingrich.

According to court papers, suspect spy Assadollah Assadi, 48, carried the bomb in a diplomatic bag, exempt from security searches, on an Austrian Airlines flight from Tehran to Vienna.

The Mother of Satan device is the same type used in the 2015 Paris massacres and 2017 Manchester Arena bomb. Assadi, a member of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is one of the first diplomat to face terror charges.

He is on trial in Belgium alongside Amir Saadouni, 40, Amir’s wife Nasimeh Naami, 36, and a fourth man.

The device was planned on being used at a 2018 rally in Paris attended by a 35-strong British delegation, including Labour MP Roger Godsiff

Tory MP Bob Blackman was at the rally, the device is the same type used in the 2015 Paris massacres and 2017 Manchester Arena bomb

Tory MP Matthew Offord also attended the conference

Fellow Tory MP Sir David Amess was also one of the five who had a lucky escape

The prime target of the plot was Maryam Rajavi, the head of an exiled Iranian opposition group.

Ms Villiers, who gave a speech at the conference, said: “Sending a bomb to Europe in a diplomatic bag on a commercial flight is an outrage.

“If the court decides that is what happened it will be shocking. I feel I’ve had a lucky escape.”