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Nejat Newsletter No. 97

Inside this issue:

– Letter from the CEO of Nejat Society

“For your information, Massoud Rajavi, the cultic leader of the MEK, announced in a message that was read to the members at the camp of this Cult in Durres, that “entry of the families into Albania is crossing our red line and this should never happen”. The question that arises for the families is whether Massoud Rajavi can decide who Nejat Newsletter No.97 should enter the country and who should not?

– Maryam Rajavi sends her thugs to attack a book fair

August 20, 2022 Agents of Maryam Rajavi attacked a book fair in Albania. The book fair which has been set up in the garden of Hotel Arvi, Durres, Albania was attacked on 17 August 2022 by several..

– State Terrorism and the History of MEK

The specialized meeting of State Terrorism and the Black History of Mujahedin-e Khalq was held by Terror Spring foundation that seeks to introduce the real face of the terrorist group of the group. The video conference was hosted by Alirez Niknam. Dr. Olsi Jazexhi, the Albanian historian and university professor from Malaysia spoke on the topic of state terrorism and supporters of the terrorist group of
the MEK. He discussed the likely links between the MEK and the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad.

– Why do they call Rajavi, Pol Pot of Iran?

About two decades ago when Elizabeth Rubin titled his article on the Mujahedin-e Khalq as “the Cult of Rajavi” and published it in the New York Times Magazine, she quoted the Iranian public opinion at the end of the article with a phrase that was actually

– Belgium decides to break free from the MEK terrorist group

In recent days, the annual meeting of the MEK terrorist group has been canceled for reasons that have been listed as security concerns. In Belgium, with a courageous and humanitarian act, the country’s parliament

– MEK and Children – Mohammad Koohestani

Mohammad Koohestani was born in 1982 when his parents had a clandestine life in Iran. His father Mostafa Koohestani had married his mother Zahra Farahnak three years earlier because..

– MEK is at best, a creepy cult; at worst, a terrorist group

The American journalist, Michael Rubin warns about the US strategy to support the Mujahedine Khalq Organization (MEK/ MKO/ Cult of Rajavi). He discusses three Iran strategies taken by the US that are guaranteed to fail. One is supporting the MEK which according to him at best is a creepy cult; at worst, it
is a terrorist group.

– ASILA develops the book fair

The association “Asila” is known as the only one in Albania which mainly
contributes to the support of the Iranian community in Albania. Asila works with a highly qualified staff
following all the legal steps to be as correct as possible with the regulation of the statute based on each legislative protocol.

– Families of martyrs of terrorist attacks call on Europe not to support the MEK

Some members of families of martyrs of terrorist attacks in Iran called Monday on Europe to stop supporting the terrorist group of Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) that has assassinated 17,000 Iranians.

– Iran politicians, scientists victims of west-backed terrorism

In the past four decades, Iran has been the biggest victim of terrorism in the world regarding the number of Iranian politicians and scientists who have fallen victim to the terrorism sponsored by the West and Zionists.

– Warning of the CEO of the Iran Nejat Society

Following the recent events in Albania and especially the fabrication of lies in some of the country’s media against the ASILA, the CEO of the Iran Nejat Society wrote a letter to the American ambassador in
Tirana on behalf of the concerned families and warned about the terrorist conspiracy of the MEK in Albania against former members in this ..
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September 24, 2022 0 comments

Maryam Rajavi

Maryam Rajavi Knocked out by Iranians in social media

The death of the young Iranian Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by the Iranian morality Police was heartbreaking and was followed by waves of protests across the country but the words of the leader of the Mujahedin Khalq to nobble the protests in Iran in favor of her cult of personality was encountered with hatred and disgust by the Iranian public opinion in social media.

The reaction of the Iranian public against Maryam Rajavi’s tweet is worth to know about her status among Iranians. The so-called president-in-exile of the NCRI twitted as if she is the leader of Iranian civil protests. She clearly calls for violence trying to surf over the recent wave.

Maryam Rajavi tweet and the reaction of the Iranian public against her tweet

In order to evaluate her base among Iranians, one can simply analyze her recent tweet. The number of likes and retweets are almost equal as it is normal in any content that is published by the Cult of Rajavi in social media. The reason is definitely clear regarding the troll farm of the group in Manza Albania who are working in cyber space to promote the group’s agenda day and night.

Nevertheless, the number of comments is at least six times the number of likes. It is worth reading the comments written by ordinary Iranians in Persian. More than six thousand comments were left under the post. The majority of users have expressed their detestation for Maryam Rajavi and her group.

In only one case, one comment addressing Rajavi “Shut up asshole!” has received near three thousand likes. Besides, a large number of celebrities and journalists mentioned Rajavi’s account and criticized her by ironic comments or simply insults. Ali Karimi, the famous Iranian soccer star mentioned Rajavi twitting, “You! Shut Up!”. Just these two words twitted by the Iranians’ favorite athlete has been liked by more than 90 thousand people, and has been retweeted more than ten thousand times.

For four decades, in every international report that has been issued on the Mujahedin Khalq, this fact has been notified that the MEK is widely detested by the Iranian public. However, the recent reactions against the group’s leader in social networks indicate a more revealing dimension of the nation’s antipathy towards a group that has the blood of Iranians, Iraqis, Kurds and even Americans in its hands.

September 21, 2022 0 comments

Albania

Dominos of problems for Albania after MEK’s relocation

Following the recent hacking of the Albanian government systems which caused the country sever ties with Tehran, Israel offered cyber defense assistance to Albania. Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll met with Albanian Foreign Minister Olta Xhacka on the sidelines of the Conference on Shaping Feminist Foreign Policy in Berlin, where he “offered to share our knowledge and experience in cyber defense” and “expressed Israel’s appreciation” for Tirana’s decision to sever its diplomatic ties with Iran, he said in a tweet.

Albania hosts a group with violent capacities

Albania agreed in 2013 to take in members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an anti-Iran cult-like group also known as the Cult of Rajavi and a longtime ally of Israel, at the request of Washington and the United Nations, with thousands settling in the Balkan country over the years. The group based its new headquarters in Manza, 30 kilometers north of the Albanian capital, Tirana.

Women fighters armed with AK-47s in the National Liberation Army of Iran stand at attention during a flag ceremony at Camp Ashraf,Wednesday Jan 29 1997, 110 kilometeres northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The fighters are dedicated to overthrowing the Islamic regime in Iran and installing a multi-party democracy. (AP PHoto/ Jassim Mohammmed)

MEK is a paramilitary group which was once the private army of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and was disarmed by the US military after the US invasion on Iraq, in 2003. As an armed group with a dark background of terrorist activities in Iraq and Iran, the group was listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department until September 2012. The delisting was based on the group’s alleged denouncing of armed struggle but the DOS’s report notified, at the time, that regarding the group’s cult-like system and its violent history, it maintains the capacity to commit acts of violence. And, that was true. The MEK is still promoting violence inside Iran by its so-called resistance units (in Persian called Kanoon-e Shooreshi).

Frequent reports on violent attacks of the so-called MEK’s resistance units against Iranian governmental or religious buildings across Iran are regularly broadcasted on the group’s media. The most recent demonstration of the MEK’s violent attitude has been reflected in Massoud Rajavi’s latest message from his hiding place which was published by the group’s media on September 13, 2022. In a ten-point command, Rajavi orders the resistance units to attack Iranian government buildings “following the pattern they acted in fall 2019 in Iran” when government buildings and banks were set on fire by the MEK agents.

Albania

Albania, victim of MEK-Israel alliance’

The MEK has long been an operative arm for the Israeli intelligence service Mossad. In 2002, they were first used by Mossad to publish the intelligence on the Iranian nuclear program. The investigative journalist, Gareth Porter writes in the American Conservative that the MEK was used by Israel’s Mossad to “launder” information that it wanted to make public but didn’t want attributed to Israel, according to two Israeli journalists.
Since then, the MEK’s agents became Mossad’s operative arms to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists. In November, 2012 NBC reported that two US senior officials confirmed that the MEK was “financed, trained, and armed by Israel” in killing Iranian nuclear scientists.

The MEK and Israel are also known for launching cyber-attacks against Iran, most notably in 2010 when the Stuxnet virus — believed to have been engineered by Israel and the US — infected Iran’s nuclear program and the most recent but trivial one was committed by the MEK in June 2022 when the MEK claimed it had hacked Tehran security cameras, dozens of municipality websites. According to AFP, the Cult of Rajavi claimed the hacking attack which it said temporarily took control of dozens of websites run by Tehran’s municipality and thousands of the capital’s surveillance cameras.

Albania seems to have become the victim of a war between Iran and Israel’s proxy force, the MEK. In order to stop the domino of problems, the Albanian government should stop hosting the MEK as a whole entity. Instead, it must host the rank and file of the MEK as human beings who need to be deradicalized and welcome by the Albanian society in order to build a normal life in the free world.

Mazda Parsi

September 19, 2022 0 comments

European Union

Letter from the CEO of Nejat Society to Josep Borrell Fontelles,

High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union

Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles
High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union

Greetings and Regards,
I am Ebrahim Khodabandeh the CEO of Nejat Society in Iran. Nejat Society is a non-governmental human rights organization consisting of families whose loved ones are trapped in the isolated and remote camp of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, Rajavi Cult) in Albania. According to the cultic rules and regulations within the MEK, the members are deprived of any communication with their families, and their most basic human rights are violated.

You are aware of the tensions and challenges between the governments of Albania and Iran these days. We try to stay away from political issues and focus on our human rights goals only. But the type of work and our aims require us not to be indifferent to the political changes in Albania, which are very worrying for the families.
Not long ago, a panel discussion was held on the recent tensions on the SYRI TV channel in Albania. Five expert guests with different opinions participated in the round table discussions. The topic of the round table was “Iran’s possible future threats against Albania”. One of the experts clearly stated that Iran is not a threat to the national security of Albania, but the presence and unconventional activities of the MEK in this country is considered a threat to the national security of Albania, because before the terrorist and subversive actions of the Rajavi Cult in Iran which are directed from Albania, there were no such tensions.

On behalf of the expectant families, I wrote a letter to Mr. Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania, which is attached. At the end of this letter, I mentioned three very vital and important demands of the families, which were:
1. Dismantling cultic relations inside the MEK camp in Albania
2. Observance of the most basic human rights regarding the members in this camp
3. Connecting the members of the MEK with the outside world, especially their families
These are the legitimate and rightful demands of all families during these years and they will not fall short of it and will not stop trying.

The MEK has caused a lot of pain and suffering to the families of its members. Most of the expectant families have lost their health completely due to the mental pressure caused by long years of separation, as a result of stress, fear and worry, and some of them died before meeting their loved ones due to these sorrows.
The mothers of members imprisoned in the camp of the Rajavi Cult in Albania are, in fact, forgotten victims who have no voice. They know where their children are, but they have no possibility of communicating with them due to the obstacles of the leaders of the Rajavi Cult supported by the Albanian government.
The greater the tension between the government of Albania and the government of Iran, the more the MEK can exploit its brainwashed members and carry out its threats to the whole of Europe in general and the country of Albania in particular.

The only group that benefits from the tension between Iran and Albania and wants to fuel these tensions is the MEK. The Rajavi Cult is trying to put Iran’s government against the Albanian government, so that in this way USA’s foot will be pulled in the middle, so that it may reach the sovereignty of Iran in the shadow of these contradictions and confrontations.

Massoud Rajavi, the hidden leader of the MEK, in a situation where everyone is trying to reduce tensions, recently in a message dated 13 September 2022 to the MEK rebel centers (terror teams) inside Iran, titled “Be alert and ready for rebel centers and rebel youths all over the country” has asked them to kill and destroy inside Iran with all their might. The MEK can grow like a rootless mushroom only in the cracks of tensions and contradictions.
As the coordinator of foreign and security policy in Europe, it is necessary to remind the authorities of Albania that the Albanian government, which wants to enter the European Union, as well as the Iranian government, do not benefit from the current situation, and the MEK is the only party that benefits from existing tensions.

Copy to:

Ms. Helga Maria Schimid, Secretary General of the European External Action Service EEAS
Mr. Marcus Cornaro, Principal Adviser to the Secretary General of the European External Action Service EEAS
Albanian authorities and the media

September 18, 2022 0 comments

Albania

MeK to Pose Security Threats in Albania: Iranian Terror Victims

Regarding the recent developments between the Iranian and Albanian governments concerning the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization’s activities in Albania, The Family of Iranian Victims of Terrorism has written a letter to the Albanian people emphasizing on the role of the MeK terrorist group in disrupting the relation between the two nations and the security threats that would impose on the Albanian civilians if this group continues to operate in their country.

Albania

The letter reads as follows:

Dear people of Albania

Almost 10 years have passed since the secret deal between the United States and Albanian governments to accept members of the Mojahedin- e Khalq Organization (MeK) in your country.

At a time when the Iraqi government was under growing pressure by its people to expel the MeK members from its soil and no country, even the United States, was willing to accept the members of this infamous group in its territory due to security concerns and legal ramifications, it was the Tirana authorities who finally were forced to accept them. The regretful fact is that the Albanian officials decided to give asylum to more than 2000 members of a terrorist group in exchange for 20 million dollars while they were aware of how dangerous this decision could be and what consequences it would bring to their people.

Contrary to the commitment made by the Albanian Foreign Minister during his visit to Tehran in December 2016, the MeK, from the very beginning of its arrival in your country, began its malicious actions making Albania a center for anti-Iranian activities. An obvious example of these anti-Iranian activities, which Tirana knowingly prepared the ground for it, is planning the actions of the MeK’s terror cells inside Iran called “Rebel centers”.

Albanian authorities, from parliament members to political parties’ leaders and even the president, continuously meet with leader of this terrorist group inside the Durres camp, an action that is considered an obvious interference in Iran’s internal affairs and violation of their initial commitments. This volume of relations, besides raising speculations about financial transactions between the MeK and Albanian officials, proves that Tirana has placed itself among our country’s enemies regardless of Iran’s possible response.

Anti-Iranian measures including multiple attendance of Albanian authorities at the MeK’s rallies inside and abroad Albania, such as the presence of the former Prime Minister Pandeli Majko and the leader of the Republican Party Fatmir Mediu in the MeK’s rally in Paris in July 2018; multiple meetings between US officials and MeK leaders in Tirana, the most recent of them the presence of the former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump’s vice president Mike Pence in the MeK’s camp in Durres in May and June 2022; the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador in December 2018; multiple appearance of Albanian authorities at the MeK’s camp including the presence of President Ilir Meta and his National Security Advisor in September 2019; the anti-Iranian speech by the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2019, in which he made support for the MEK; the statement released by the former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha in support of the assassination of the Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani in January 2020 by Trump administration; the expulsion of two Iranian diplomats from Tirana in January 2020; and Edi Rama’s pro-MeK speech in January 2020 prove why the Iranian people accuse the Albanian government for conscious action on the path of enmity with Iran.

These suspicious meetings and communications were coordinated with the rise of cyber-attacks against Iran and sabotage and terrorist activities of the MeK’s terror cells called Rebel Centers inside our country. If only a small part of these conspiracies and hostile interventions were carried out by Iran against Albania, what would Tirana’s reaction be?

In the case of Albanian Government’s decision to cut diplomatic ties with Iran, which we consider it a continuation of foreign governments’ pressure on Rama’s administration in support for the MeK terrorists, we believe that political authorities of your country are rapidly turning Albania into a center of security crisis for the Balkans and the whole of Europe. They seem to have forgotten that they are supporting a terrorist group that has assassinated more than 12,000 Iranian citizens.

Dear Albanian friends

Our effort is that our painful experience of the presence of a terrorist group and its bloody actions against the security and citizens of our country will not be repeated for you. The astonishing claims made by your authorities of hosting “a number of Iranian dissidents” is in fact a deception of public opinion to justify accepting a militant terrorist group. We suggest you to refer to historical documents and international reports about the MeK as well as memories and statements of the group’s detached members to see how a group, which has assassinated thousands of Iranian and Iraqi citizens during the 80s and 90s and had been part of the military and security arm of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, was imposed on your country.

We, the family of terror victims in Iran, as a part of the community of victims of terrorism in the world, expect you to be aware of the threats and consequences caused by the presence of terrorists in your country. No country in the world should become a dumping ground for terrorists. Terrorists must be limited so that they can be prosecuted to create peace and security in the world.

Yours Sincerely,
Habilian Association (The Family of Iranian Victims of Terrorism)

September 18, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

How is the US involved in the Iran-Albanian political crisis?

Tehran claims Tirana has become the victim of a plot by Washington to further tarnish already-strained diplomatic relations.
Albania cut diplomatic relations with Iran and expelled its diplomats over a cyberattack it accused Tehran of launching, and the United States has backed the Balkan state.
Iran told Albania and the United Nations it was not involved, but a restoration of ties that were already strained because of Albania’s hosting of a group that Tehran considers to be “terrorist” appears unlikely at least in the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, Tehran has accused Washington of fanning the flames of conflict.

Here is everything you need to know about the cyberattack and everyone involved.

After Albania joined NATO in 2009, American influence was cemented there

How did the cyberattack affect Albania?

The cyberattack happened on July 15, temporarily shutting down numerous Albanian government digital services and websites.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said earlier this month the Eastern European nation determined through “undeniable evidence” it was a “state aggression” by four groups orchestrated by Iran.
The Albanian government formally gave the Iranian embassy staff in Tirana, including diplomatic and security personnel, 24 hours to leave the country.

How did the US support Albania?

The US government was quick to back NATO ally Albania with words and actions.
In addition to condemning the cyberattack, Washington on Friday imposed sanctions on Iran’s intelligence ministry, in addition to intelligence minister Esmail Khatib, for what it called “malign cyber activities”.
The sanctions are symbolic since Khatib and the ministry are not thought to hold assets in the US that can be frozen, and have no plans to conduct direct business with American citizens. Both were also sanctioned under different designations before.
A day earlier, Washington also blacklisted several companies it accused of producing and transporting Iranian drones to Russia, which the US claims are to be used in the Ukraine war.
This comes amid Tehran and Washington’s efforts since April 2021 to restore their 2015 nuclear deal, abandoned in 2018 by the US and followed by the imposition of all-encompassing sanctions.

How did Iran respond?

Iran’s mission to the UN and its foreign ministry denied what it called “baseless” claims, saying Tehran has been falsely accused of mounting the cyberattack.
In a letter to the Albanian mission and UN chief Antonio Guterres, Iran’s mission said Albanian police forcefully entered the Iranian embassy in Tirana, a move Tehran said violated international law and consular relations.
The Iranian foreign ministry on Saturday went one step further, saying Albania has become “the victim of a scenario designed by Washington against the Islamic Republic of Iran”.
The foreign ministry said the US has supported, and cyber-trained and equipped a “terrorist” group, which acts “as a US tool in implementing terrorist acts, cyberattacks and psychological war against the government and nation of Iran”.

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Who is the ‘terrorist’ group involved?

Iran’s claim about the US involvement relates to a group known as the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), which Tehran considers a “terrorist” organisation for a string of bombings, assassinations and armed assaults on Iranian soil during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
Iran says MEK is responsible for the deaths of 17,000 Iranians, many of them women and children, and has also blacklisted dozens of US officials for supporting the group that calls for the forceful overthrow of the current Iranian establishment.
With US support and coordination, MEK is mainly based in Albania, in addition to several other European nations, a presence that has for years contributed to tarnished relations between Iran and the host nations.
MEK was also designated a “terrorist” group by the US and the European Union, but was delisted more than a decade ago after renouncing violence.

By Maziar Motamedi – Jazeera

September 14, 2022 0 comments

Albania

Albania-Iran Political Crisis Intensifies After Second Cyberattack

The Albanian border management information system (TIMS) was back online on Sunday, and Prime Minister Edi Rama confirmed there was no serious data breach after it was subject to a second cyberattack over the weekend.

The latest attack comes just days after Rama accused Iran of being behind a 15 July cyberattack that brought all government websites and digital citizens’ services offline. He ordered all Iranian diplomats to leave the country within 24 hours, severing all diplomatic ties with Tehran.

“Another cyber attack by the same aggressors, already exposed and condemned by Albania’s friendly and allied countries, was recorded last night on the TIMS system! Meanwhile, we continue to work around the clock with our allies to make our digital systems impenetrable,” Rama wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

Exit news on Albania Cyber-attack

But on Sunday, he confirmed the system was back up and running, and the aggressors had not achieved their goal.

“Beyond the heavy feeling created by the penetration into these systems, just like when they break into a house and steal, the fact is that the aggression has not achieved its goal at all, no disappearance or serious data leak!” Rama wrote on Twitter.

Those trying to use the TIMS system, which records every person who enters and exits the country, were confronted by a message stating, “Albania is still paying for the terrorist acts of the MEK cult in Durres; this game will continue.”

Albania is home to the MEK group (People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran), who were transferred to Albania from an Iraqi refugee camp in 2016.

The group was founded in 1965 and engaged in militant action against the Iranian government for decades before forging an alliance with Iraq and siding with them during the Iraq-Iran war.

MEK was previously designated as a terrorist organisation by the EU, Canada, US and Japan, but this was repealed. They were given protection in 2004 by the US government under the Geneva Convention.

They aim to overthrow the Iranian government, and some 1000 members live in a closed, heavily guarded compound 40km outside Tirana.

However, some analysts say it is not just due to MEK that Albania is being targeted. Albania is staunchly pro-American, a member of NATO and is home to a NATO airbase and, potentially, a future, a NATO naval base.

Lawyer and politician Kreshnik Spahiu warned that the government should be vigilant against attacks.

“The Albanian government should be alert because it is in a direct war with Iran. Albania must be very prepared militarily, even with the intelligence services, but also as a society in terms of other attacks that in the future will no longer be on the Internet and social networks, but we will have consequences and physical victims”, he said.

The US National Security Council has reacted to the latest news of the attack, stating it supports Albania’s recovery efforts.

“The United States condemns the September 9th cyberattack against our NATO Ally, Albania. This malicious activity against Albania follows the July 15 cyberattack conducted by the Government of Iran. The U.S. government is supporting Albania’s efforts to mitigate and recover.” a statement on Twitter reads.

The Director of the Civil Aviation Authority, Maksim Et’hemaj said the attack was sabotage and called for the establishment of a Crisis Coordination Committee.

“In civil aviation, what happened with the TIMS system is classified by the definition, sabotage.In such cases, in cases of sabotage, the civil aviation asks the local authorities to set up what is called the Crisis Coordination Committee. We are talking about an abnormal, unusual situation,” he told Euronews Albania.

But it is not just Albania that has witnessed such attacks. Digital services in Kosovo and North Macedonia have also been targeted over the last few days, although it is not yet known who is behind them.

Meanwhile, the MEK, in March 2021, was accused by Facebook of running a troll farm out of their base in Albania.

In a statement published on their website, Facebook said they had investigated and disrupted a “long-running operation from Albania that targeted primarily Iran.”

“The network violated our policy against foreign interference, which is coordinated inauthentic behaviour on behalf of a foreign entity,” they wrote in their in-depth report.

The National Council for Resistance in Iran, an organisation including MEK, issued a statement to the media denying any accounts affiliated with MEK have been removed. They also denied that there was a troll farm in Albania affiliated with them in any way.

Meanwhile, security expert Ergys Muzhaqi said the country should brace for more attacks in the future, including from Serbia and Russia.

“We must be very clear that further attacks will be expected. We have Russian hackers who are just as famous, although Iranians are more dangerous. We have Serbian hackers, we have hackers who would like to participate in such a situation. Albania has no time to lose to take its measures”, he told the media.

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September 14, 2022 0 comments

Iran

Iran strongly condemns US sanctions over Albania hacking

Iran has condemned new US sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s intelligence ministry for an alleged cyberattack on Albania earlier this year

Iran on Saturday strongly condemned a US decision to impose sanctions on its intelligence ministry, blamed for a major cyber-attack on NATO ally Albania. Albania severed diplomatic ties with Iran on Wednesday after accusing it of the July 15 cyber-attack that sought, but failed, to paralyse public services and access data and government communications systems.

In response on Friday, the United States slapped sanctions on Iran’s intelligence ministry and its minister Esmail Khatib, saying the attack “disregards norms of responsible peacetime state behaviour in cyberspace”.
On Saturday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said: “The ministry of foreign affairs strongly condemns the action of the US treasury department in repeatedly sanctioning the ministry of intelligence of the Islamic republic.

US-Delisted MEK Terrorists Still Openly Committed to Violence

“America’s immediate support for the false accusation of the Albanian government… shows that the designer of this scenario is not the latter, but the American government,” he added in a statement.

Kanani accused the US of “giving full support to a terrorist sect”, referring to the opposition People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, or Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), members of which are hosted by Albania.
Albania agreed in 2013 to take in members of the MEK from Iraq at the request of Washington and the United Nations, with thousands settling in the Balkan country over the years. “This criminal organisation continues to play a role as one of America’s tools in perpetrating terrorist acts, cyber-attacks” against Iran, the statement added.

The MEK backed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the 1979 revolution that ousted the shah but rapidly fell out with the new Islamic authorities and embarked on a campaign to overthrow the regime.
The MEK then sided with Iraq under Saddam Hussein in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

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September 13, 2022 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

MEK defectors to visit Bektashi supreme Dervish

Members of the Association for the Support of Iranians living in Albania (ASILA), visited the Bektashi supreme Dervish in Korçë, a city in eastern Albania. As several members of ASILA are Muslim Iranians who defected the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), visiting the leader of an Islamic movement is considered an act towards closer religious and cultural interactions between Iranian and Albanian nations.

Iranian founders and members of ASILA who are former members of the MEK are dedicated to support defectors of the group in order to live a normal life in the Albanian society. In order to accomplish their mission, they are supposed to build cultural relationships with the Albanian society. Respecting the culture of the host society including Bektashism, as a Shia Islamic Sufi Order in Albania, leads to more efficient and effective efforts of the activists of ASILA.

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September 13, 2022 0 comments

Albania

Open letter of the CEO of Nejat Society to the Prime Minister of Albania

His Excellency Mr. Edi Rama
Honorable Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania
Greetings and respect

I, Ebrahim Khodabandeh, the CEO of Nejat Society in Iran, on behalf of the families of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) based in the isolated and remote camp of this organization in Albania, would like to present to you some information that I believe can be useful to be considered from the point of view of the national interests of Albania.

I know that you are relatively familiar with the activities of the families who are members of the Nejat Society in Iran, as well as myself as the CEO and representative of these families. Nejat Society is a non-governmental human rights organization and our goal is to dismantle cultic relations within the MEK and to end the gross and repeated violation of the most basic human rights of the members.

Although our goal is to fulfill a completely human rights request, but in the current situation, we cannot be indifferent to the changes and political tensions in Albania, which have caused the families to worry. The process of affairs in Albania does not seem very favorable from the point of view of political and national security.

The story of tensions started when the presence of a destructive mind-control cult called the MEK was imposed on Albania, and these tensions intensified when this organization directed subversive and terrorist activities inside Iran from the territory of Albania, and took responsibility for them officially and publicly.

One of the latest cases of this type is stated on the official website of the MEK, which claims that the rebel centers (terror cells) of the MEK inside the country attacked the judiciary building on September 2 this year and blew it up. Regardless of whether this claim is true or false, the acceptance of responsibility for a terrorist and sabotage attack directed from Albanian soil by the MEK has criminal consequences for the host government supporting that organization. The Albanian government is definitely responsible for such actions in recent months, including the cyber-attacks in Iran, which the MEK has officially accepted and propagated.

My questions are whether such measures were included in the agreements, when the MEK were apparently accepted in Albania for humanitarian reasons. Was Albania seeking a conflict with the Islamic Republic of Iran from the beginning by accepting the MEK in its territory and allowing this cult to do the mentioned actions? Does Albania, which desires to enter the European Union, want to host a terrorist cult with medieval ties in its territory?

If the answer to the above questions is negative, then action must be taken so that no one has a different opinion. The first step, we believe, can be the dismantling of cultic relations inside the camp of the MEK and the observance of human rights in this camp, and the connection of the members with the outside world, especially their families, which has always been the wish of the Nejat Society.

Sincerely
Ebrahim Khodabandeh
CEO of Najat Society

Copy to:
Bajram Begaj, President of the Republic
Bledar Cuci, Minister of Interior
Nasip Naco, Head of the National Security Commission of the Parliament

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