TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the transfer by the Albanian authorities to sever diplomatic ties with Iran as ‘shortsighted’.
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In an announcement on Wednesday, Iran’s overseas ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani condemned Albania’s choice to chop ties with Iran and ship again Iranian diplomats as “injudicious” and “lacking in foresight”, dismissing the allegations of orchestrating the July cyber assault in opposition to the south European nation as “baseless”.
He additionally termed allegations leveled in opposition to Tehran as “baseless” and “unsubstantiated”, blaming it on “third parties”.
Earlier on Wednesday, Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama introduced the choice in a video message, giving Iranian diplomats and embassy workers 24 hours to go away the nation.
“This extreme response…is fully proportionate to the gravity and risk of the cyberattack that threatened to paralyze public services, erase digital systems, and hack into state records, steal government intranet electronic communication, and stir chaos and insecurity in the country,” he stated.
Refuting the allegation, the overseas ministry spokesman stated as one of many victims of rampant cyberattacks, the Islamic Republic condemns any use of our on-line world towards infringement on different international locations’ important infrastructures.
He recognized the United States, the Israeli regime, and the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), an anti-Iran terrorist group that has been hosted by Albania since 2016, because the “third parties” which have propelled Tirana into taking the choice.
The assertion cited the United States’ National Security Council and Israeli media retailers’ expeditious welcoming of the Albanian authorities’s transfer, saying this “bespeaks existence of a choreographed plan aimed at political atmosphere against the Islamic Republic.”
Albania took in round 3,000 members of the MKO terrorist group in 2016 on the request of Washington, after the group was disowned by Iraq and snubbed by many European international locations.
The anti-Iran terrorist group based mostly in Albania has carried out quite a few acts of terrorism on Iranian soil for the reason that 1979 Islamic Revolution, killing senior political leaders, clerics and extraordinary civilians.
The European Union, Canada, the United States, and Japan had beforehand listed the MKO as a “terrorist organization”.
In 2012, the group was taken off the US checklist of terrorist organizations. The EU adopted the swimsuit, eradicating the group from its checklist of terrorist organizations.