MKO cannot use Albania as ‘trench to fight’ against Iran: PM
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said the terrorist cult of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) could not use his country as a “trench to fight” against Iran.
In an interview with the German weekly news magazine, Der Spiegel, Rama said the Tirana-based terrorist group had repeatedly violated a bilateral agreement to stay in Albania.
He warned that the MKO must leave Albania should it continue to renege on the agreement.
“We have had the MKO in our country for several years… on the condition that they do not use Albania as a platform for their political operations,” said the Albanian prime minister.
The Albanian police raided the group’s camp in the capital Trina on June 20 to seize computer devices linked to terrorist activities.
An MKO member was reportedly killed during the raid and a number of police officers and MKO terrorists were injured during the clashes.
MKO members stayed in Iraq for years, where they were armed by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Albania has hosted an estimate of 3,000 terrorists since 2016 after the group was shunned by former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The MKO has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials over the past four decades, killing nearly 17,000.