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Albania says police thwarted attack plot by Iranian terror cell
2019-10-24
[IsraelTimes] Authorities say Tehran-backed cell from IRGC’s elite Quds Force planned to attack Sufi opponents of the regime last year

Albanian police said Wednesday they had thwarted a planned attack by a Tehran-backed "terrorist cell" against opponents of the Tehran regime in the Balkan country last year.

In a statement, police said the group belonged to the elite Quds Force which runs foreign operations for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

This cell "had planned, among other things, a terrorist act foiled in March 2018" targeting a religious celebration of the Bektashi, a Sufi group, in Tirana, the statement said.

The ceremony was attended by members of the exiled Iranian opposition group the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
(MEK), according to police.
...that’s Mujahedin-e Khalq when they’re at home...
In 2013 Albania agreed to take in some 3,000 members of the MEK at the request of Washington and the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
They currently live in a compound in the northwest of the country.

On Wednesday police published photos of three Iranians and one Ottoman Turkish national allegedly involved in the "terrorist cell."

The leader "resides in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
" and another "has an Austrian passport," according to the police statement.

Police declined to confirm whether international arrest warrants had been issued.

Authorities also did not say whether the incident had any connection to Tirana’s decision last year to expel two Iranian diplomats who the US accused of plotting "terrorist attacks" in the Balkan country.

In January the Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Union sanctioned Iran’s intelligence services after accusing Tehran of being involved in plots to assassinate regime opponents in the Netherlands, Denmark and La Belle France.

Gay Paree accused Iranian intelligence of being responsible for plotting a planned attack on a MEK rally north of Gay Paree in June 2018.
Ynet adds:
A police statement alleged that two Iranian top security officials led the cell from Tehran.
Related:
Mujahedin-e Khalq: 2018-12-25 Albania expels Iranian terror diplomats
Mujahedin-e Khalq: 2018-12-20 Albania expels Iranian diplomats over foiled plot to attack Israelis — report
Mujahedin-e Khalq: 2018-11-09 Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK
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Quds Force: 2019-09-28 If US escalates tensions, Iran will target US troops in Iraq: ambassador
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  1. Targeting Sufi's is kinda like stomping puppies.
2. Given history, I'd not want a bunch of Albanians PO'd at me.
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-10-24 08:25  

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