Jezexhi expressed surprise that the ringleader had chosen to target him in this fashion this time around after three years of \u201cattacking me from behind\u201d by pressuring him through the Albanian government and his employer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very happy that you have come out with the face of your commanders to attack me,\u201d he said, adding that the covert attacks had \u201ccaused so many troubles for my life, and destroyed it economically.\u201d<\/p>\n
The journalist, however, pledged that he would not stop probing the group and revealing information about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to tell you, Mariam Rajavi, that Albania is a democratic state, and we are a liberal democracy, where we have freedom of speech,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re never going to be silenced. We\u2019re going to investigate and expose to the international and Albanian community, the crimes and the illegal things that you\u2019re doing in my country,\u201d Jezexhi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The MKO has a squalid history of assassinations and bombings against the Iranian government and nation. It notoriously sided with Saddam Hussein during the former Iraqi dictator\u2019s 1980-88 war on Iran.<\/p>\n
Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the victory of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the MKO\u2019s acts of terror.<\/p>\n
Western countries, topped by the United States, have, nevertheless, taken the group out of their terror blacklists.<\/p>\n
Currently based in Albania, the group throws lavish conferences every year in Paris, with certain American, Western, and Saudi officials as its guests of honor. These include former US national security advisor John Bolton, US President Donald Trump\u2019s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, and former Saudi Arabian spy chief, Prince Turki Al Faisal.<\/p>\n
The MKO was relocated from Iraq, where it used to enjoy the US\u2019s protection, to Albania in 2016, where it was allowed by Tirana to set up a paramilitary camp.<\/p>\n
Jezexhi said since then, the cult\u2019s membership has grown from some 3,000 to around 7,000, identifying himself as one of the first public speakers in Albania to ever ask his government not to bring in the terrorists.<\/p>\n
\u2018Good terrorists, standing army\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\nJezexhi said the group has attained the \u201cgood and useful terrorist\u201d status because of the support it gets from the US, the NATO military alliance and Israel, as well as the money it receives from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This, he added, was because \u201cthey\u2019re being kept as a standing army, ready to be used and deployed at any moment\u2026whenever the United States and Israel wants them to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNATO needs to use [them] in the future war that the Americans and Israel plan to wage against Iran,\u201d the journalist said.<\/p>\n
In Albania, the MKO now outnumber even the army and the police, the number of whose overall forces stands at some 6,000.<\/p>\n
The MKO terrorists have told the people in Albania that they have come there \u201con humanitarian visas\u201d while their status does not differ at all from those returning from fighting alongside Takfiri terrorist groups such as Daesh, al-Nusra Front, or Tahrir al-Sham against the Syrian government and people.<\/p>\n
Jezexhi said Balkan countries like Albania are mandated to prosecute those who used to engage in fighting abroad after their return, and have jailed and charged hundreds of the Takfiri returnees as a result of the imperative.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, in the case of Albania and since the United States is at war with Iran and Israel as well [is at war with Iran], the Albania-based Mujahedin are pampered by the Americans and the Albanian government,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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