{"id":8983,"date":"2018-12-31T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=8983"},"modified":"2019-01-01T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T14:01:21","slug":"iranian-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/12\/iranian-diplomats\/8983\/","title":{"rendered":"Expelling Iranian diplomats, a necessary step for European security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Expelling <\/strong>Iranian diplomats, a necessary step for\nEuropean security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After December 2017, the Iranian regime was deeply concerned about the ongoing uprisings of the Iranian people. Along with the repression of people inside Iran, it made a series of measures to physically eliminate its opposition abroad. It focused on its arch-enemy, People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\\MEK). <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To reach this goal it activated its intelligence agents as Iranian diplomats in its embassies. But one after the other, some of these diplomat terrorists were soon exposed and expelled from their respective countries. The most recent fact was the expulsion of mullahs\u2019 regime\u2019s ambassador and its first secretary from Albania<\/a> by the Albanian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about Iranian diplomats<\/strong> in Albania<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\nhttps:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2018\/12\/31\/iranian-diplomat-terrorists\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The expulsion of two Iranian diplomats from Albania, following the arrest and expulsion of the Iranian regime\u2019s terrorist diplomats from other European countries including France, Denmark, and the Netherlands, was vastly reflected in the news around the world.
Reuters\u2019 report on December 19, titled: \u201cAlbania expels Iranian diplomats on national security grounds<\/a>\u201d. It added: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlbania\nhas expelled Iran\u2019s ambassador and another diplomat for \u2018damaging its national\nsecurity\u2019\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u201cPhone calls to the Iranian Embassy in Tirana\nwent unanswered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arab News also reported the expulsion of regime\u2019s terrorist diplomats from Albania on December 22, titled: \u201cAlbania expels Iranian diplomats for \u2018harming security\u2019<\/a>\u201d and reminded, \u201cin 2013, Albania agreed to take in some 3,000 members of the Iranian opposition group known as The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US\nSecretary of State, Mike Pompeo, welcomed the Albanian government\u2019s move and\ntweeted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I commend PM Edi Rama\u2019s expulsion of two Iranian agents who plotted terrorist attacks in #Albania<\/a>. European nations have thwarted three Iranian plots this year alone. The world must stand together to sanction #Iran<\/a>\u2019s regime until it changes its destructive behavior.<\/p>\u2014 Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) December 19, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>