Iran acquires MKO’s digital data
An Iranian official said a number of electronic and storage devices captured during the Albanian police’s recent raid on a base of the terrorist Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) have arrived in Iran.
The head of the Iranian government’s Information Council said on Monday that a consignment of hard drives and computer cases confiscated during the recent raid on the MKO camp near Tirana have reached Iran, according to Tasnim news agency.
Sepehr Khalaji announced in a post on his Twitter account that Iranian experts are retrieving data from the devices and detecting the MKO’s “links, sabotage cells, and blind spots”. The results so far are promising, he added.
In late June, the Albanian police forces raided a camp hosting the MKO over its engagement in “terror and cyberattacks” against foreign institutions.
Authorities seized 150 computer devices linked to terrorist activities. At least one MKO terrorist was killed and dozens of others were injured during the clashes at the camp, known as Ashraf-3, in the northwest of the capital Tirana.
An informed source has said that the computer servers captured in the raid contain important information including data about the terrorist group’s links and elements inside Iran.
Tehran slams France for hosting MKO rally
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Sunday that hosting the terrorist cult’s recent gathering — which coincided with widespread political and social unrest in France — proves the French government’s disregard for the demands of its own citizens and its continued political support for terror groups, Press TV reported.
“Instead of repeating their past brazen mistakes in supporting the killers of the Iranian people and [instead of] focusing on [finding a] radical solution for their country’s profound problems and crises, and [instead of] correcting their biased and racist treatment of French citizens, the French authorities paved the way for a meeting of terrorists who have been recently put to shame in Albania,” the spokesman said.
Kanaani then warned the French government against the political and legal consequences of its support for and hosting of terrorists and murderers of Iranian citizens and officials.
“Those terrorists, who have betrayed their own country and nation by committing shocking and horrible crimes, will certainly not hesitate to betray their foreign supporters as well. Therefore, those who support terrorists will not only fail to benefit from them but will also be eventually harmed by the moves of these evildoers,” he said.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman’s remarks came after the Iranian Intelligence Ministry said earlier on Sunday that it is seriously pursuing terrorists beyond the country’s borders, citing successful operations that led to the arrest of individuals affiliated with the MKO terror cult.
The ministry also commended the Albanian government for its recent action against MKO terrorists during a raid on their camp in the northwestern region of the capital, Tirana, describing the operation conducted by the Albanian police as a “step forward.”
The European Union, Canada, the United States, and Japan had previously listed the MKO as a “terrorist organization.” In 2012, however, the group was taken off of the US list of terrorist organizations. The EU followed suit, removing the group from its list of terrorist organizations.
The MKO has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks over the past four decades, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the MKO’s acts of terror.