{"id":227759,"date":"2020-10-12T13:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T12:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=227759"},"modified":"2024-06-03T08:38:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T07:38:54","slug":"another-agent-of-irans-regime-operating-against-mek-in-albania-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/another-agent-of-irans-regime-operating-against-mek-in-albania-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Agent of Iran\u2019s Regime Operating Against MEK in Albania Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_227760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227760\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-227760 size-full\" title=\"Albanian_Police_12102020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Albanian_Police_12102020.jpg\" alt=\"Albanian Police\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Albanian_Police_12102020.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Albanian_Police_12102020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Albanian_Police_12102020-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Albanian_Police_12102020-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Albanian_Police_12102020-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-227760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albanian Police<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Albanian police announced on Saturday they had arrested an agent of the Iranian regime\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) for spying on members of the Iranian opposition, People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>, in Ashraf 3, Albania. This recent arrest renders the necessity of firm action against the mullahs\u2019 agents in all European countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Iranian Resistance identified the individual as Bijan Pooladrag, whom the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-the-mek-in-albania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MEK<\/a> had expelled in September 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to an Albanian police statement, the individual had been arrested for \u201cillegal interception of computer data\u201d and \u201cinterference in computer systems, interference in computer data\u201d as well as \u201cmisuse of equipment.\u201d According to this statement, Pooladrag has committed the crimes mentioned above \u201cthrough various actions,\u201d and \u201c(he) communicated through a network messaging application, which he used by linking it to the mobile phone numbers\u201d to listen and track them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this regard, the National Council of Resistance of Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about-ncri\/alternative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(NCRI)<\/a> Security and Counterterrorism Committee, in a statement on October 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/iranian-regime-intelligence-ministrys-agent-arrested-in-albania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>: \u201cSeveral MOIS agents live in Albania. The MEK had previously exposed them and provided their records to the relevant authorities, including Ehsan Bidi, Daniel Kasraei, Gholamreza Shekari, Gholam Ali Mirzaei, and Hassan Heyrani.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Iranian regime has been using individuals expelled from the MEK or those who could not continue the struggle for freedom to gather information about the MEK for planning terrorist attacks. These MOIS agents also operate under the banner of the so-called \u201cformer MEK members\u201d to demonize the Iranian Resistance, thus, justifying the regime\u2019s subsequent terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime uses many of its so-called \u201cfriendly\u201d journalists to push the mullahs\u2019 false narratives about the Iranian Resistance and all the baseless allegations against the MEK, already rejected by high courts in the U.S. and EU, under the banner of \u201cIran experts.\u201d To further accredit their hit pieces, they use MOIS \u201ccurrent members,\u201d disguised as the MEK\u2019s \u201cformer members.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">An example of mullahs\u2019 failed demonization campaign<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/hamburg-court-prohibits-der-spiegel-from-spreading-false-allegations-against-iranian-pmoi-mek\/\">March 2019<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-iran-resistance\/the-hamburg-court-prohibits-the-faz-from-making-false-claims-against-the-iranian-peoples-mojahedin-mek\/\">July 2020<\/a>, German courts handed down judgments upholding challenges the NCRI had brought against two \u201ccredible\u201d German media, Der Spiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that had published hit-pieces demonizing the MEK.<br \/>\nIn both cases, the courts condemned these two media outlets for disseminating false information, originating from the MOIS and its members, and ordered them to remove these baseless allegations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The recent arrest of another MOIS operative in Albania once again discredits those regime agents who the mullahs\u2019 apologists try to promote as \u201cformer members\u201d of the MEK.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">How mullahs\u2019 agents facilitate terrorism?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Iranian regime has been oppressing its dissidents both inside and outside Iran. The long list of the mullahs\u2019 political assassinations and acts of terrorism, including the foiled bomb plot against the NCRI\u2019s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/free-iran-gathering-paris-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cFree Iran\u201d gathering<\/a> in 2018 in France, show the regime will never cease its terrorist operations. To facilitate its assassinations or implement them, the regime uses its embassies as a nest for its spies, such as Pooladrag, and Heyrani, and its mercenaries, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iranian-diplomat-facing-terror-charges-makes-no-secret-of-expecting-impunity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, the regime\u2019s diplomat-terrorist who is on trial in Belgium for the 2018 bomb plot in France. Before his arrest, the latter was the third secretary of the regime\u2019s embassy in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime\u2019s spies are also supported by and working in connection with the mullahs\u2019 embassies in various European countries. In this regard, the Albanian government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-expelling-of-iranian-regime-s-ambassador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expelled<\/a> the regime\u2019s ambassador to Albania and several other diplomats and affiliates on different occasions for their involvement in terrorist activities against the MEK. These activities include the foiled bomb plot against the MEK\u2019s Persian New Year gathering in Albania in March 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement on August 10, the NCRI wrote: \u201cAfter the Government of Albania expelled Mohammad Ali Arz Peyma and Ahmad Hosseini Alast, two of the clerical regime\u2019s diplomat-terrorists, in January 2020, and exerted greater vigilance regarding the activities of the mullahs\u2019 embassy, the regime\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the terrorist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/the-iranian-regimes-irgc-quds-force-1980s-present\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quds Forces<\/a> are carrying out their activities and communications with their agents indirectly from Tehran, the Balkans and Western European countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest arrest of another MOIS agent reiterates the need to prosecute and expel the intelligence and Revolutionary Guards <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/look-irans-revolutionary-guards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(IRGC)<\/a> agents from Europe, especially Iran regime\u2019s embassies which are active in pursuing the regime\u2019s terror plots in European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albanian police announced on Saturday they had arrested an agent of the Iranian regime&rsquo;s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) for spying on members of the Iranian opposition, People&rsquo;s Mojahedin [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":227760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,45,19],"tags":[197,198,200,205,273],"class_list":{"0":"post-227759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-resistance","8":"category-news","9":"category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism","10":"tag-mek-iran","11":"tag-ncri","12":"tag-mek-in-albania","13":"tag-irgc","14":"tag-assadollah-assadi"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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