The new limits are in place to keep terrorists under control at the Ashraf-3 camp outside Manze, a small hill hamlet 30 kilometers west of Tirana, Albania’s capital.

No one is reportedly permitted to enter or leave the camp without first receiving permission from Albanian authorities.

Maryam Rajavi, the ringleader of the terrorist MKO group, has also been banned to Albania.

According to sources, the ban was issued by Albania’s anti-terrorism court following an assessment of the documents demonstrating the group’s involvement in sabotage actions in Iran.

After Albanian police stormed the camp in late June for the group’s engagement in “terror and cyber-attacks” against international organizations, Rajavi escaped from Albania to France.

150 computers connected to terrorist operations were confiscated.

During the clashes at the camp, at least one MKO terrorist was killed and several more injured.

Reports suggest that the MKO member killed in the raid was Abdolvahhab Faraji, a prominent commander of the group with expertise in military engineering operations who was in charge of technical and engineering activities during an operation launched by the group against Iran in July 1988.

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama later said the MKO must leave the country if it wants to use Albanian soil to fight against Iran, adding that his country has no intention of being at war with Iran and “does not accept anyone who has abused our hospitality.”

Members of the cultish group spent several years in Iraq, where Saddam Hussein, a former Iraqi dictator, harbored and armed them.

They supported Saddam Hussein during his imposed war against Iran and afterwards assisted him in putting down protests across the Arab nation, Shias in the south and Kurds in the north.

Thousands of Iranian citizens, including government officials, have been killed by the despised organization since the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. The cultish group’s machine of terror was highly active in first years of the revolution.

Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since 1979, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO.

The group was viewed by the EU as a terrorist organization until January 2009, when the EU Council lifted the designation under immense pressure from political lobbies. The decision was followed by the United States in September 2012.

The group was also considered a terror group by Canada and Japan.

Back in July, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, the chief of Iran’s Judiciary, said he had established a special committee to look into the cases of indicted members of the MKO whose proceedings have been delayed.

He said he has advised the Judiciary to heed to the MKO members’ cases while keeping in mind the heinous crimes the group has committed.

Iran has lately become more focused on bringing members of the MKO to justice. A criminal court in Tehran told 104 members of the group to get ready for prosecution. It announced the they have one month to introduce defense attorney to the court otherwise “the necessary decision would be taken according to law”.

On July 14, Iran summoned Italy’s Ambassador to Tehran, Giuseppe Perrone, to express strong opposition to the Italian parliament’s decision to welcome the ringleader of the MKO.

Majid Nili Ahmad-Abadi, director general for Western Europe Department at the Foreign Ministry, urged Italy to uphold its international commitments in the “fight against terrorism.”

The meeting between Rajavi and a few Italian lawmakers drew vitriol from Tehran for being “clearly an example of promoting and encouraging terrorism.”

“The Islamic Republic does not tolerate support for terrorism in any shape by anyone and categorically censures it,” the Iranian diplomat noted.

According to a statement by the Foreign Ministry, Iran recognizes free speech and behavior within the bounds of the law and respects the national sovereignty of other nations.

In order to protect the rule of law and the freedom of those who uphold it, the ministry said, “All governance mechanisms of the civilized world seek punishment for terrorists.”

The official in charge emphasized how detested the MKO is among the Iranian people, stressing, “Doubtless any move by anyone anywhere in support of terrorism is condemned. Iran urges the Italian government to demonstrate its seriousness in preventing the country from turning into a safe haven for terrorists.”

He went on to say, “Supporting terrorism would not protect Italy’s interests in fostering positive relations with Iran; on the contrary, and it will severely damage Italy’s reputation abroad.”

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Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama on Wednesday announced the decision in a video message, giving Iranian diplomats and embassy staff 24 hours to leave the country. “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 claimed.

The statement cited the United States’ National Security Council and Israeli media outlets’ expeditious welcoming of the Albanian government’s move, saying this “bespeaks existence of a choreographed plan aimed at political atmosphere against the Islamic Republic.”

We all know it well that Albania has turned into a haven for the Iranian terrorist group MKO where the group engineers plots against the Islamic Republic of Iran and therefore such an accusation by this pint-size country is not something strange at least for us Iranians and it is not the first time this tiny state locks horns with Tehran.

Albania took in around 3,000 members of the MKO terrorist group in 2016 at the request of Washington, after the group was disowned by Iraq and snubbed by many European countries. The anti-Iran terrorist group based in Albania has carried out numerous acts of terrorism on Iranian soil since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, killing senior political leaders, clerics and ordinary civilians.

This claim comes at a time when the talks on revival of the nuclear agreement JCPOA are in their final stage and the Zionist regime and the ill-wishers of Iran do not like this agreement to be signed and they pull together all of their force and plots to push the talks towards a failure.

Since Albania is a NATO member its claim against Tehran will involve other NATO members in this dispute, and increases the pressure on Iran while we know that the European Union, Canada, the United States, and Japan had previously listed the MKO as a “terrorist organization”.

In 2012, the group was taken off the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. The EU followed the suit, removing the group from its list of terrorist organizations.

Albanian government as the puppet of the MKO and Zionist regime in a strange and improper action forced the Iranian diplomats to leave Albania and this behavior enraged Tehran. Iran’s Foreign Ministry voiced concern about reports of inappropriate conduct of Albanian authorities toward the Iranian embassy and its staff in the capital, Tirana, saying Albania will be responsible for any acts of violation against the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic mission in the Balkan country.

Nasser Kanaani, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, made the remark after media reports said Albanian police forces had illegally entered the Iranian embassy in Tirana and conducted search operations in the empty diplomatic mission following the severance of ties between the two countries.

Albanian special police forces, wearing masks and helmets and carrying automatic rifles, were said to have violated the compound of Iran’s diplomatic mission after two cars with diplomatic plates had left.

The reports said the Albanian police were inside the diplomatic mission for 30 minutes and searched the building which still flew the Iranian flag.

“If the reports by media outlets are true, this was a behavior contrary to international law and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Rights,” Kanaani said.

He added that Iran holds the Albanian government accountable for any act of violation targeting its embassy in Tirana.

Under international law, embassies and consulates receive special protection and immunity and are regarded as the territory or “soil” of the sending state.

The trespassing took place a day after Albania, which has for years hosted anti-Iran terrorists in collusion with the US, severed diplomatic ties with Tehran, accusing it of orchestrating a July “cyberattack” against Tirana.

The pint-sized country should know that if Tehran decides to give a proper response it will give and it is better not to mess with Tehran because even big world powers do not dare to mess with Iran and Albania is too weak to lock horns with the Islamic establishment.

The West and especially NATO members are better to stop blame game and confirming Albania’s claim of Iran’s cyberattacks because Iran for years has been itself the victim of cyberattacks and they are better to resort to other pretexts to put Tehran under pressure.

NATO and its allies has become a “safe haven” for the anti-Iranian terrorist organization MKO. NATO and its allies, claiming to fight international terrorism, have turned a blind eye on the fact that a terrorist cult has found a safe haven in NATO member countries, turning them into operational headquarters to launch the widest imaginable spectrum of malicious acts against Iran.

We hope Albania would come to its senses and stop housing the terrorist group MKO and restore diplomatic ties with Tehran because Iran does not like to cut diplomatic ties with other countries but it does not mean that it will bow to any bully under the pretext of cyberattack because such pretexts and assimilations will not affect the strong determination of the Islamic Republic of Iran for fighting for its rights and standing firmly against the bullies of the West and Zionists.

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Written and directed by Mehrshad Ranjbar, the film received the best student film award at its first international screening, IRNA reported.

TIFF has received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognition as Oscar-qualifying for the Student Academy Awards (SAA).

The short film narrates the story of an old woman who has been taking care of her husband for a long time. But an incident disturbs the order of her life.

The cast of the short film includes Maryam Nourafkan and Abbas Jalallou.

The 18th edition of the festival hosted 16 student films from Switzerland, Cuba, Germany, Poland, France, China, Austria, Denmark, Belgium and Iran, held from September 20 to 25.

Established in 2003, the TIFF is one of the most significant film festivals in the Balkans. The event is a place for different cultures to come together and interact.

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According To Iran News, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi expressed deep regret over the 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Albania, which left at least 25 people killed and over 600 more injured.

In a Wednesday statement, Mousavi offered sympathy to the Albanian nation and government and those struck by the tragic disaster.

Albania was rocked by its strongest earthquake in decades, according to authorities, though many expect the number to increase, euronews reported.

The magnitude-6.4 earthquake, which was the strongest of several quakes to hit the country’s western region on Tuesday morning, left a number of people trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama visited rescue sites after the earthquake which was followed by 250 aftershocks. The government declared November 27 a day of national mourning and schools will be suspended.

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Iranian animated short ‘Nobody’ by Elham Toroghi has been accepted into the competition programs of four international film festivals in Albania, US, Italy and Slovakia.

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