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++ Rudi Giuliani visited Albania for Nourouz. The MEK tried to make something out of it but the coverage was confined to paid articles. Nobody in Albania cares about him. In real terms however, Rajavi has reduced the pressure on MEK members, especially after two high ranking members escaped. She has told her lieutenants ‘we can’t carry on as we did in Iraq, we don’t have the power of Saddam behind us and we can’t keep people, so we have to find other ways’. She has finally woken up. MEK commanders have eased up the pressure and are now pleading with people to stay. The reason they got Giuliani to visit them there was to convince members the MEK has some support. Ironically, John Bolton has tried to distance himself from his past saying ‘my words are in the past’.

++ John Bolton’s appointment resulted in outcry from all Iranian opposition groups everywhere. They have all turned anti-Trump. They demand to know ‘Why are you destroying any hope for changing the regime by promoting MEK and Bolton and such sort of people, so that the people of Iran have no choice except to stick with the mullahs’. Commentators say ‘This is not the first time. You have done this over the years. If it wasn’t for your support for MEK the regime would have changed multiple times by now’.

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++ Gjergi Thanasi wrote in Albania’s City News that Maryam Rajavi demanded Albania’s government expel two accredited Iranian diplomats on the grounds that they are spies. Her politicisation of the MEK presence in that country has landed a ‘hot potato’ in the hands of Ministers Bushati and Xhafa who must answer this demand. Rajavi also insisted that Albania refuse visas for Iranian families wanting to visit their loved ones in Camp Ashraf Three, also because they are spies. (According to Maryam Rajavi there are no end of Iranian spies in Albania or wishing to visit Albania. Perhaps we must ask: why so much interest, what is she really up to?)

++ On the occasion of Nouruz, Mazda Parsi of Nejat Society reviews MEK conduct over the past year as the leaders took action to cope with the group’s decline. The article draws attention to the condition of members who have been taken hostage by their leaders. In the field of foreign relations, the MEK continues to pay huge amounts for futile propaganda. Parsi concludes that sooner or later, the group’s western promoters will eventually realise that the Rajavi cult has more disadvantages than advantages for them.

++ Anne Khodabandeh wrote for Balkans Post ‘Albanian media fooled by MEK ‘misdirection’. The article tells of two members who used the pretext of visiting the MEK graveyard in Tirana, to seek refuge with the UNHCR. Khodabandeh analyses what this event tells us about the current state of the MEK and its disturbing presence in Albania. She criticises Albanian media for uncritically publishing defamatory MEK statements aimed at silencing critics and diverting attention from their genuine criticisms. MEK’s politicisation of its presence in Albania is the same as a confidence trickster diverting the attention of a target using misdirection in order to rob them. Instead of objectively and independently investigating allegations against the MEK, Albanian media have succeeded in bringing the fight between America, Israel and Saudi Arabia against Iran to their country.

++ Gazeta Impakt published a scathing report of an incident in which two senior Iranian public broadcast journalists who had been invited to Albania to celebrate Nourouz at the Bektashi World Headquarters, had been arrested and detained as terrorists before being released without charge. The President of the Bektashi community, Baba Edmond Brahimaj, intervened to have the men freed. The arrests were ordered by Maryam Rajavi showing that “Albania has already turned into a state that has been put in the service of international terrorism and the terrorist organization MEK” … “Encouraged by many US and Israeli extremist circles, Rajavi wants to undertake terrorist acts against Iran, thus breaking the Albanian criminal code, which condemns terrorist activity.” The article concludes that the failure of her plot left Maryam Rajavi gob-smacked – it turns out the journalists were journalists not paid killers as she had insisted – and suggests, wickedly, that widow Rajavi might really be disappointed that Iran hadn’t sent her a husband!

March 23, 2018

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Missions of Nejat Society

Meeting of Families of Nejat at Mazandaran Office

Members of Nejat Society visited at the office of the Society in Sari, Mazandaran on Saturday March 17^th.

The responsible of Sari office, Hadi Shaabani presented for the families, a review of the current situation of members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) in Albania and the recent act of the UNHCR to pay the group defectors independently. He also recounted the recent acts of defectors of the group in the European Parliament.

Shabani stated that a large number of the rank and file of the group refused to go to the new camp outside Tirana “Ashraf 3”.

Farokhi, Salehi, Afghan and Sabet Rostami were some of family members of hostages of the MKO who attended the meeting. They were so eager to know the names of the recently defectors of the MKO.

The families who are members of Nejat Society several times traveled to Iraq to visit their loved ones but they were not allowed by the authorities of the MKO. Once the group is located in Albania they are hopeful that their loved ones leave the group by the aid of the UNHCR. They declared that they are ready to do anything possible to rescue their family member who is taken as a hostage by the MKO leader. The recent news about the defectors assured them that their efforts for salvation of their loved ones will bear fruit in the future.

Sabet Rostami asserted, “The evil Rajavi should know that if he builds a hundred “Ashraf 3” to imprison our loved ones, their families will not give up. We will keep on the good work to release our loved one. This is what Rajavi fears a lot.”

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization

The MKO in the past one year

On the eve of the Iranian New Year, it is worth looking back at the MEK conduct in the past one year. The group leaders took mean actions to cope with their declining phase during the past year. Weather they were successful or not, the international community should be vigilant about the threats by the side of the MKO as a destructive cult.

Maryam Rajavi

Once they were completely relocated in Albania, the MKO authorities had to reconstruct the regulations of their cult-like organization because of the increasing rate of defection in the new community which was not as isolated as it was in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, Iraq.

The group authorities established a new base in a remote region outside Tirana and named it “Ashraf 3” in order to impose more limitations on members and to launch their cult-like practices more easily. Members were made to sign an engagement letter before being resettled in the new camp according to which they were committed to stay in the group until the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. The group leaders even confiscated the members’ properties that were given to them by the UNHCR.

Being isolated in the new camp, far from the normal life of the civil society and having signed the so-called engagement letter, members of the MKO are literally taken as hostages by their leaders. Fortunately, the UNHCR finally agreed to pay the monthly payments of those who defect the MKO independently. However, those who are still in the MKO camp do not know that they have the right to use the UN facilities once they leave the MKO because they are always told by the leaders that their defection from the group results in their homelessness and poverty. The UNHCR authorities should inform the members on their rights of living in a free community after their departure from the cult otherwise they are intimidated about living independently by the cult leaders.

The past year was also a challenge for the MKO leaders in their foreign relations. They had to enhance their lobbying efforts inviting American congressmen to their Tirana base where Maryam Rajavi received them in a huge propaganda show. The group’s members were made celebrate the reception of American lawmakers as if it was a big victory –they did not dare to ask their leaders what happened to the anti-Imperialist and anti-Zionist slogans of the MKO.

On the other hand, the US politicians have spent a large amount of money of the US taxpayers for the relocation and residence of the MKO in Albania contributing the Albanian government and the UN High Commissioners of Refugees. Regarding the MKO’s history of terrorist acts, suicidal operations and cult-like behaviors such as self-immolations, sooner or later the West will come to the conclusion that the Cult of Rajavi has more disadvantages than advantages for the West as they experienced it with Al-Qaida and ISIS. The terrorist extremist groups will often turn back to haunt their promoters someday.

Mazda Parsi

March 19, 2018 0 comments

Albania

The Expulsion of Iranian Diplomats – A ‘Hot Potato’ for Minister Bushati

An organization fighting for the collapse of the current form of government in Iran called the NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran) has publicly called on the Albanian government to expel from Albania two Iranian diplomats accredited in Tirana. The NCRI demands that the Albanian government expel the First Secretary of the Iranian Embassy in Tirana, Mostafa Roodaki and Cultural Attaché, Seyed Ahmad Hosseini Alast. This request is based on the April 1997 EU Resolution on the expulsion of Iranian spies accredited under diplomatic cover.

According to the NCRI, the two diplomats are simply spies of the Iranian secret service called VAJA. Despite the fact that the NCRI errs about the functions attributed to one of the aforementioned persons, this call is extremely problematic for the Albanian government, especially Minister Bushati and Xhafa, who according to Albanian law has the authority to designate a foreign diplomat accredited in Tirana persona non-grata. It should be noted that, according to the official Diplomatic List of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the First Secretary at the Iranian Embassy in Tirana is Mr. Fereeydon Zandi.

A demand from a fugitive Iranian fugitive organization should not be taken seriously by the Albanian authorities, but when this organization has ‘heavyweight minders’ in the international arena, such a call can be extremely problematic!

On March 5-6, a scientific symposium on the work of our national poet Naim Frashëri was held at Modares University in Tehran. The symposium, along with scientific authorities from the Republic of Kosovo, FYROM and Bosnia, was also attended by prominent Albanian personalities such as Dr. Prof. Rexhep Meidani, former President of the Republic of Albania, Academician Floresha Dado, Dr. Arian Leka lecturer at the Academy of Arts etc. The NCRI alleges that organisations such Habilian or Didban Centre act as instruments of the Iranian VAJA and used this symposium to influence Albanian VIPs against the Mojahedin (MEK) organization housed in Camp Ashraf Three in Manza near Durrës.

In this context, it remains to be seen how Bushati and Xhafa will react to this request for the expulsion of Iranian diplomats, as well as the request from Nejat Association, which appealed to the Albanian authorities to provide visas and enable the families of Mojahedin members to travel from Iran to Albania and meet with their loved ones living in Manza.

The situation also becomes more problematic because of Prime Minister Rama’s personal enmity toward former President Meidani. We recall here the public show that Rama performed against Meidani when he became Public Recorder (Qatip) – when he sponsored the SP program and then dropped this program together with Meidani, or when the first act undertaken by the Director of the Customs of Spiropali, Rama’s ‘protégé’, was the dismissal of the son of former President Meidani, or the extremely immoral attacks undertaken by Rama against the wife of former President Meidani. It remains to see how the two Rama ministers will treat Iran’s ‘hot potato’.

To add a little humour in our writing, we can confirm without fear or favour that former Prime Minister Pandeli Majko will eat ice crea in the Gelato La Pasticceria at the Golestan Shopping Centre in Tehran after the Mojahedin of Makkah take over Iran, and at the same time, former President Rexhep Meidani will drink coffee at the ‘Lamiz’ cafe in Tajrish Square in Tehran after Iran’s current government destroys the Mojahedin’s military camp at Manza. The British boast of their humour, but indeed, English humour is far inferior to the humour of Albanian politicians!!!!! / GJERGJ THANASI /CNA.al

Gjergi Thanasi, City News Albania

Translated by Iran Interlink

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Former members of the MEK

Two hostages escaped the MKO base in Albania

Two members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/MEK /PMOI / the Cult of Rajavi) left the group’s base in Albania.

According to Sahar Family Foundation, the two recently-defected people could manage to escape from the MKO’s new base called Ashraf 3 in the outskirt of Tirana and introduced themselves to the office of the UN High Commissioners of Refugees.

The newly-established camp of the MKO is located in Durres region, 31 kilometers West of Tirana where members are more isolated than they were in Tirana.

SFF reported that following the relocation of MKO members in Ashraf 3 their discontent of the cult-like regulations of the group increased and once they were informed that the UNHCR pays their monthly payment independently –not via the MKO authorities- they are more motivated to leave the group as soon as possible.

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Missions of Nejat Society

Albanian journalists at the office of Nejat Society

On Tuesday March 6^th, Albanian journalists were received at the central office of Nejat society in Tehran.

During the meeting that lasted several ours, three mothers of the hostages of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization in Albania talked with the Albanian journalists. Two former members of the group who have recently returned to Iran from Albania also attended the meeting.

The attendees recounted the stories of their involvements with the MKO asking the journalists to make their voice heard by the Albanian people and government. Their two main requests included first, the possibility to be provided for families to contact and visit their beloved in the MKO, second, the facilities to be provided by the United Nations under the international regulations for those who leave the MKO camps.

One of the journalists told Nejat representatives that he is an investigating journalist and has pursued the case of the MKO in his country but he had not been informed about the stuff he learned in the meeting at Nejat society. He asserted that the public opinion in Albanian do not have enough information about the true nature of the MKO and the way it treats its members. He said that the Albanian nation should be enlightened about the truth of the cult-like group.

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Nejat representatives at the Iran-Albania cultural event

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Albania

Nejat representatives at the Iran-Albania cultural event

Two representatives of Nejat Society attended the conference to commemorate the Albanian poet, Naim Frashër in Tehran.

Ebrahim Khodabandeh and Zahra Mirbagheri attended the event that was held to commemorate the Albanian writer and poet Naim Frasher who was the only European poet who to write Persian poetries. The conference was held with the help of Islamic Culture and Communication Organization, Teacher Training Faculty of Tehran University and some Albanian cultural centers.

There were also representatives of various countries such as Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Italy attending this event.

On the sidelines of the conference, Khodabandeh and Mirbagheri visited foreign invitees and journalists enlightening them about the current situation of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO, MEK, PMOI, the Cult of Rajavi) in Albania. They warned about the threats of the region is exposed to by the side of the cult-like Mujahedin Khalq.

Nejat representatives described the frustrations that families of the MKO members are faced with for visiting their beloved ones in the group’s camps in Albania. They also talked about the conditions of defectors of the group in that country.

Nejat delegation visited a number of academic figures of Balkan region including former president of Albania professor Rexhep Meidani , deputy chief of Albanian science academy professor Floresha Dado, Professor Ali Aliyev of the Macedonian State University, Professor Hamid Jaafari of the South-East European University of Macedonia, Professor Saeed Abedpour of science and research institute of Sarajevo in Bosnia and many other academics and journalists of the region.

Representatives of Nejat Society asked the Albanian government to facilitate the grounds for families of MKO members to travel to Albania in order to visit their loved ones who are taken as hostages in the MKO camps.

They invited a number of journalists to come to the office of Nejat Society and visit families of the MKO hostages and former members of the group. The journalists accepted the invitation.

The additional report of the meeting at Nejat Society will be published in a while.

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Duplicity of the MEK nature

The MKO far from the legacy of Mossadeq

On the occasion of the death anniversary of the death of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister of Iran, the leader of the destructive cult of the MKO, Maryam Rajavi’s narcissism leads her to claim to inherit the legacy of Mossadegh!

She does not hesitate to put the name of her destructive cult –People’s Mojahedin of Iran_ alongside the name of Dr. Mossadegh as the inspirers of the youth of Iran for her alleged freedom and democracy. Listing the achievements of Dr. Mosaddegh’s 28-month tenure, Rajavi accurately said about mosaddeq, “He was targeted from all directions for his cause which cherished independence, freedom, and an unwavering struggle against foreign colonialism, and against domestic dictatorship and fundamentalism.”

Nevertheless, Maryam Rajavi should be asked what the MKO has in common with Dr. Mosaddegh in both the achievement and the cause. While Dr. Mossadegh was the most prominent figure of the Iranian nationalism, the history of the Mujahedin Khalq –particularly its leader Massoud Rajavi—is full of anti-nationalistic acts. Siding with Saddam Hossein in the eight years of Iran-Iraq war and acting as the proxy force of the Israeli and American Intelligence services in Iran after the fall of Saddam, the MKO has nothing in common with the Nationalist movement of Iran.

Mosaddeq’s nationalization efforts led the British government to begin planning to remove him from power. In January 1953, the U.S. and Britain agreed to work together toward Mosaddegh’s removal. The plot, known as Operation Ajax, centered on convincing Iran’s monarch to issue a decree to dismiss Mossadegh from office. On the 60th anniversary of the coup against Mosaddegh, the CIA publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious coup in August 1953.

This indicates that, the Western Imperialism felt their interests threatened by the side of Mosaddegh as a nationalist anti-West leader who was democratically elected and cherished by the Iranian people. In contrast, the MKO leaders, Maryam and Massoud Rajavi and their followers have served as Saddam’s private army and the US-Israeli proxy forces in order to launch cross border terror acts against Iranian civilians including the Iranian nuclear scientist.

The legacy of Mosaddeq and the nationalist Movement is probably the most symbolic for the many Iranians of both religious and secular persuasions who favor political development toward a democratic society but the Mujahedin Khalq is a violent group detested by the majority of Iranians. However, the opportunist leaders of the MKO have always been seeking a chance to boost their declining establishment. The names of great leaders of the masses all over the world such as Mandella, Ghandi and Mosaddeq are used as the apparatuses for the propaganda machine of the MKO.

Mazda Parsi

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Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 224

++ On the 7th and 8th of March a delegation of ex-members from Avaa and the Women’s Association attended a meeting in the European Parliament where they had the opportunity to talk about the situation of the MEK. The Women’s Association have also met with officials in the Albanian embassy in Germany. This follows visits by other ex-members to the Albanian embassies in other western European countries. They complained about the lack of action by Albania to protect ex-members after the MEK openly threatened to kill them or at least violently attack them in the streets of their cities.

++ On the anniversary of the death of Mohammad Mosadeq, Rajavi again tried to align herself with him and his democratic government as she tries to exploit anyone and everyone else. She claimed the MEK are the followers of Mosadeq. Critics wrote scathingly to say, “Shut up Rajavi, you are nothing like Mosadeq, at the very least he was not a mercenary as we know you are”.

++ On International Women’s Day there was a flurry of writing against Maryam Rajavi who claims to support women’s rights. Iranian women flamed her saying how can she say that when she abuses women in her own group. Many female ex-members published harrowing accounts of their treatment inside the MEK. Mostly they commented that ordinary women in Iran are far more liberated than women in the MEK. Their struggle is well in advance of what Maryam Rajavi thinks. She has fallen behind and is now aligned with regressive ideas not progressive.

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++ Mehr News Agency staff wrote a piece strongly criticizing France’s failure to act on its obligations to combat terrorism and violence by continuing to turn a blind eye to MEK activity in that country. The piece was published during a visit by France’s Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, to Tehran. France has taken an ambivalent approach to the JCPOA now that the US has demanded Iran’s missile programme be posthumously linked to the agreement. The Mehr News Agency article outlined the MEK’s anti-Iran activities including continued incitement to violence in Iran organised by its activists in Paris. According to the article, the Foreign Minister’s visit prompted officials from every part of the Iranian establishment to speak out against French hypocrisy.

++ Nejat Society reported the arrival in Iran of an ex-MEK member who dissociated from them in Albania. Mohammad Tourang who was reunited with his family in Isfahan met other families at the office of the Nejat Society NGO. Executive Director Ebrahim Khodabandeh addressed the families, giving an outline of the current situation of the hostages in the MEK camp and those who have been able to escape the cult in Tirana. Mohamamd Tourang described the condition of the captives of the MEK as disastrous. “Most members are old, depressed and sick”, he said. According to Tourang’s testimony, people in the MEK base in Albania have many questions in their minds. “Brainwashing sessions end with quarrels between the rank and file and the senior members”, he asserted. Tourang was able to answer the many questions that the suffering families asked him about their loved ones who are still held as hostages in the MEK.

++ A Press TV report says that ‘France’s continuing tolerance of MEK contradicts its international obligations’, asserting that Iranian security forces had thwarted terrorist acts by over 30 cells other than Daesh in recent years. “On January 5, Iran’s security forces disbanded a local of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group, which had carried out acts of sabotage during recent protests in some Iranian cities over rising prices and economic problems. According to Lorestan Province’s intelligence department, the MKO-affiliated terrorists were identified and arrested in the city of Borujerd.” Press TV linked this activity with France’s tolerance of the MEK in Paris. Iran’s top security official,Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani, criticized Europe for trying to appease US President Donald Trump who has threatened to scuttle a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran if radical changes are not made to it. Referring to Iran’s “costly” contribution to the anti-terror fight in the region, Shamkhani continued, “Paris should reciprocate by confronting France-based terrorists of Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), who have the blood of thousands of Iranians on their hands. Instead, France’s continuing tolerance of the MKO contradicts its international obligation regarding terrorism and is counterproductive to growing relations between Tehran and Paris.”

March 10, 2018 0 comments

France

France’s long history of playing with Iran

In the following report provided by MNA staff members, a summary of France’s playing with Iran at different stages is discussed with the hope that our Foreign Ministry takes a tougher stance against the European country.French foreign minister has finally arrived in Tehran.

The French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived in Tehran early on Sunday March 5, 2018 and so far, he has met with Iran’s SNSC Secretary Ali Shamkhani and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.

Jean-Yves Le Drian had postponed his trip to Tehran, which had been planned for January 5, 2018.

The decision for postponing the trip came as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held a phone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on January 3, 2018, calling on France to “take its legal responsibility to combat terrorism and violence,” criticizing that a terrorist group, called Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), has a base in Paris, operating against the Iranian people and provoking and persuading people to take violent actions in Iran.

France’s support for terrorist MKO

Mohahedin-e Khalq (MKO) is a terrorist organization in exile that has carried out a lot of brutal attacks against civilian and government officials in Iran killing a large number of them.

The terrorist MKO has been supported by the Western governments since its founding.

The terrorist organization operates freely in France and holds regular conferences in French capital Paris every year in order to recruit many more terrorists.

They were involved in the recent riots in the Iran. On January 5, 2018, Iran’s intelligence ministry said on Friday that a MKO terrorist cell was discovered and dismantled in Boroujerd, Lorestan province, saying they were involved in sabotaging actions during recent protests.

Prior to that on July 2, 2017, Iran’s foreign minister had warned against activities of the MKO in France, saying “giving permission to carry out activities to a group which is loathed by the Iranian people, has a dark history of assassinations, had sided with Saddam regime, and has been making attempts to carry out attacks on the Iranian soil leaves a black stain on the countries that cooperate with such groups.”

Zarif added that the MKO had become an instruments in the hands of Iran’s enemies.

Now with all these in mind, the Iranian policy makers are expected to transfer Iranian people and government’s worries about the terrorist MKO’s activities in France.

France’s playing with the JCPOA

The level of hostility of the current US government towards the nuclear deal with Iran is clear to everyone, but Europeans’ position toward the pact is different. Some of them verbally continue to support the implementation process and want to keep things going. In this regard, Tehran has repeatedly stated that oral support is not enough and the Europeans have to take action against US’s moves in violation of the JCPOA.

Foad Izadi, professor of American studies at the University of Tehran believes that France has taken a hypocritical stance towards the nuclear deal with Iran and wants to relate the JCPOA with Iran’s missile program.

The continuation of making anti-Iran accusations and uncalculated remarks

In the past months, French senior officials including President Emmanuel Macron and Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has uttered baseless claims and accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran. They have explicitly named Iran as a threat to the region and the world and these claims have been of course condemned by statements issued by the Iranian foreign ministry. However, the effectiveness of these claims, considering their frequent expression, can be sized up.

Speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Le Drian criticized Iran for destabilizing measures in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.

“The other condition for building trust is keeping one’s word. The destabilizing actions carried out by Iran in Syria, in Iraq, in Lebanon, in Yemen, or in the Gulf region—whether directly or through the groups it supports—these initiatives cannot be tolerated. And I’m stated this very bluntly. Likewise, for ballistic activities carried out by Iran, which are incompatible with the resolutions of the Security Council. This attitude runs contrary to our interests, and runs contrary to the U.S.’s interests. This attitude is a threat to the security of countries in the region. We certainly share the objective to curb this policy, because he cannot accept interfering and the desire for hegemony that they testify to.”

While visiting UAE and Saudi Arabia, French President Macron repeated in Dubai that he wanted to keep the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump has challenged.

But he said he was “very concerned” by Iran’s ballistic missile program, mentioning a missile fired from Yemen and intercepted by Saudi Arabia on Saturday, and raised the prospect of possible sanctions with regard to those activities.

“There are extremely strong concerns about Iran. There are negotiations we need to start on Iran’s ballistic missiles,” he said.

“Like what was done in 2015 for the nuclear activities, it’s necessary to put a framework in place for Iran’s ballistic activities and open a process, with sanctions if needed, of negotiation that would enable (that).”

It is worth to mention that in the past months, Mr. Macron shared the same views against Iran in his meetings with US President Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu.

The French Foreign Minister Le Drian has also made threats against Iran saying that if Iran does not take care about the concerns over its missile program, new sanctions may be levied on Iran.

Of course, it is to be borne in mind that the negative report card of the French in dealing with the Iranian nation is not limited to these remarks in regards with the JCPOA, Iran’s missile program, and defense capabilities.

HIV-Infected Bloods Case

The case of “HIV-Infected Bloods” dates back to approxmately three decades ago and came to being in the course of Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). However, the case is one of the other unpleasant and unforgettable measures taken by the French authorities against Iranians.

Mérieux Institute, which currently is at the ownership of French Sanofi-Aventis Company, exported HIV-contaminated coagulation factors, for being used by patients suffering from hemophilia, to some countries including West Germany, Italy, Argentine, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran.

In the same direction, exporting HIV-infected bloods claimed lives of many patients suffering from hemophilia.

The necessity of Iran’s Foreign Ministry taking legal action against France’s baseless accusations

With all the above considerations, the widespread accusations made by Paris authorities against Tehran indicate that the approach taken by French authorities after the implementation of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is based on double-standard, bias, an unilateral policy.

In this regard, Naqavi Hosseini Spokesman for Parliament National Security Commission said, “it has already been reiterated that Iran’s defensive power is not negotiable and in my opinion, Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs should take urgent action against the issue seriously.”

“In general, the respected government of the Islamic Republic of Iran should revise its relations with French authorities categorically,” he maintained.

For his part, Ali-Akbar Velayati Senior Advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in International Affairs pointed to baseless remarks raised by French officials with regard to renegotiating with Iran’s missile power and said, “defensive preparedness is of the initial and inalienable rights of any nation and no country is allowed to interfere in internal affairs of other countries.”

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi also showed harsh reaction in this respect and said, “the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran will never allow others to undermine its missile power since it is for peaceful purposes.”

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