Imperative to designate Iran’s MOIS and IRGC as terrorist entities in Europe and to expel their operatives
In a press conference on October 23, 2019, Albania’s Police Chief announced the uncovering of a terrorist ring connected to the Iranian regime in that country. The ring was planning to launch attacks on the Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK). Albanian security services had uncovered this terrorist ring recently.
.@Mohaddessin :In March a plot against PMOI in Albania was foiled.
In June Assadi, their chancellor of Iranian Embassy, was arrested during an operation.#ExpelIranDiplomatTerrorists #IranRegimeChange #Iran pic.twitter.com/jEu2goC5Ud— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) October 4, 2018
It is worth noting that Assadollah Assadi, the diplomat-terrorist, arrested for plotting to bomb the June 2018 gathering of Iranians in Paris, was the Iranian regime’s third secretary in Vienna, Austria. He has been imprisoned in Belgium for the past 16 months.
According to Albania’s Police Chief, in addition to its Iranian operatives, the Quds Force is using the services of organized crime gangs in Turkey to carry out terror plots against the MEK. To this end, an operations agent of the Quds Force, Abdolkhalegh Malekzadeh (aka Farhad), was regularly in contact with Abdulselam Turgut, a notorious criminal in Turkey.
Malekzadeh is from Saravan, in Sistan and Baluchistan Province (southeastern Iran). He was fired as the chief executive officer of Gheer Sabz (Green Tar) cooperative in Chabahar. The Intelligence Ministry assigned him to Malaysia, then to Masqat in Oman, and then to Turkey using the cover of Petropars Company.
In March 2018, two Iranian regime terrorists using the cover of journalists went from Turkey to Albania to bomb the MEK’s Nowruz celebrations but were arrested while photographing the location. In parallel to the dispatch of the regime’s agents and such former so-called MEK members as Alireza Naghashzadeh, several other members of Turgut gang were also sent to Albania to carry out the attack.
According to Albania’s Police Chief, Turgut had been imprisoned in Albania in 2011 for smuggling a ton of Heroin but used a fake passport to escape. He has also been imprisoned in Azerbaijan and Turkey for drug smuggling.
Unable to contain popular uprisings and the growing activities of young people and Resistance Units, the Iranian regime had dispatched its agents to Albanian embassies in different countries in a futile and absurd attempt to demonize the MEK.
Whatever the regime’s ploys, as security services in Germany, the Netherlands and other European countries have stated, the MEK and the NCRI are the main targets of the demonization campaign, espionage, and terrorism by mullahs’ Intelligence Ministry and the Revolutionary Guards.
NCRI’s Committee on Security and Counterterrorism urges all Iranians in European countries to provide any information on the activities of the regime’s agents to the relevant law enforcement agencies.
In its April 29, 1997 declaration, the European Union stressed that the regime’s intelligence operatives must be expelled from Europe and that no visas should be issued for those Iranians linked to Iran’s intelligence and security services.
NCRI’s Security and Counterterrorism reiterates:
- Agents and operatives of the Intelligence Ministry, the IRGC, and the terrorist Quds Force must be prosecuted, punished and expelled from European territory.
- The MOIS and the IRGC must be included in the European Union’s terrorist list.
- The mullahs’ embassies and representations, which in reality are terror and espionage centers must be shut down.
National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
Committee on Security and Counterterrorism
October 24, 2019