European visit to Albania exposes Iran's misinformation campaign

European visit to Albania exposes Iran's misinformation campaign

A high-level delegation of MEPs from Brussels recently visited Ashraf 3 in Tirana, Albania. Photo by Firouz Mahvi

Nov. 27 (UPI) -- In 2013, an airlift began and the first Iranian dissidents arrived in the Albanian capital, plucked to safety from the hell they had endured in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty inside Iraq.

Albania may be a tiny country, but its people have big hearts. Having suffered years of oppression under the communists, the Albanian government was united in its determination to offer a safe haven to the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI or MEK). Soon the surviving 3,000 MEK members were safely housed in special accommodation in Tirana, provided by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.

The Iranian mullahs were appalled; their attempts to liquidate the MEK, the main democratic opposition to their tyrannical regime, had been thwarted. They could not allow these dissidents, who offer a future of freedom and justice to the oppressed millions in Iran, to set up a new Ashraf, a new center for opposition to their tyrannical regime.

A campaign of demonization against the MEK began. For this purpose, the mullahs focused their attention on elements of the Western media, manipulating their anti-Trump agenda to encompass a smear campaign against the MEK. The Iranian regime even reverted to acts of terrorism, using one of their diplomats from their embassy in Vienna to organize a bomb plot against a mass MEK Rally in Paris in June and more recently, sending another agent who was very close to Iran's ambassador in Norway, to assassinate an opposition figure in Denmark. Both "so-called" diplomats have been arrested and are facing trial for acts of terror.

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