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Iran regime establishes anti-PMOI (MEK) ‘intelligence station’ in Albania

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The Iranian regime sets up an ‘intelligence station’ at regime’s embassy in Albania against PMOI members and Camp Liberty residents

NCRI – The Iranian regime has established an ‘intelligence station’ in its embassy in Albania to act against the members of the Iranian opposition, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and Camp Liberty residents who have resettled there.

The regime’s leaders and their agents are not seeking resettlement of PMOI members and Camp Liberty residents from Iraq, rather they are looking towards their surrender or annihilation and have stated that “PMOI members should be wiped off the face of the earth”.

It is within the context of this policy that the regime’s leaders and officials have in the past threatened many countries against admitting members of PMOI and Camp liberty residents to be resettled in their countries.

Similarly, when Albania first admitted a number of PMOI members, the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) threatened the Albanian government so that it would forgo admitting PMOI members:

– Seyyed Bagher Hosseini, a member of the regime’s parliament, addressing the Albanian government, said that the PMOI members “are not only dangerous to their national interests, but this can imperil the whole region” (May 18, 2012).

– Mohammadreza Mohseni Sani, member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said: “Admitting PMOI members… not only doesn’t help Albania’s stature, but in the long run has security ramifications for that country” (June 23, 2012).

– State-run news network IRINN reported: “The Balkan countries will witness explosions and sabotage in the future that benefit the United States and the Zionist regime.” (May 17, 2013)

Subsequently, mullahs’ intelligence decided to set up an “intelligence station” against PMOI at the regime’s embassy in Albania.

For this purpose, in the winter of 2013, the regime dispatched one of its agents by the name of Fereydoun Zandi Aliabadi to Albania under diplomatic cover to manage this intelligence station.

The infamous intelligence ministry initially had Zandi work in the Foreign Ministry to create a cover for his espionage and intelligence activities and then dispatched him to Albania as the first secretary of the embassy.

Zandi is in close contact with the head of MOIS in Iraq with the pseudonym “Sajjad” and also with “Haj Ali Navidi” – the MOIS agent in Turkey. Zandi coordinates his missions against PMOI in Albania with the MOIS branch in Iraq.

One of this MOIS agent’s tasks is to establish contact with some of the Iranian refugees under various guises and get them to cooperate with the MOIS by threatening, luring and giving them money.
This criminal agent that introduces himself as Haji in phone calls and meetings is attempting to collect information against PMOI members and their families. To establish contact and meet others in Tirana, he uses a variety of methods such as posing as a taxi driver.

Another exposed MOIS agent in Albania is Ehsan Biedi who encourages and facilitates establishing contact with Zandi.

In 1997, following the court’s verdict in the case of the killings in Mykonos restaurant in Berlin where the clerical regime’s Supreme Leader, its president and its ministers of foreign affairs and intelligence at that time were declared to be responsible for the assassination of dissidents abroad, the EU Council adopted a resolution calling for the expulsion of Iranian regime’s MOIS agents from member states.

This resolution makes the need to stop the activities of MOIS elements against Iranian refugees in Albania and their expulsion from this country all the more imperative.

Security and Anti-terrorism Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

December 1, 2014