Was raid on Iran opposition group tied to possible new Biden-Tehran nuclear talks?

The Albanian authorities’s raid of a camp run by the exiled Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) has led to criticism in opposition to the White Home and Albania for allegedly placating the Islamic Republic of Iran – the world’s high state sponsor of terrorism.

When requested concerning the Albania state raid, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo advised Fox Information Digital, “By offering sanctions aid to the Iranian regime, President Biden and Rob Malley are abandoning the Iranian folks and enriching their oppressors. The regime is dedicated to crushing its personal folks whereas spreading terror and mayhem overseas, and the Biden administration’s blind need to appease and negotiate with it has made the world a extra harmful place.” Pompeo visited the MEK headquarters final 12 months.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Maryam Rajavi at Ashraf-3, Could 16, 2022, in Albania. (NCRI)

Robert Malley, who’s the U.S. particular envoy to Iran, is seen by some Iran commentators as a extremely controversial diplomat due to his efforts to supply Iran’s regime important monetary concessions so as to attain a nuclear settlement with Tehran. Critics time period Malley’s posture toward Iran appeasement politics.

Congressional representatives within the Senate and Home have expressed alarm concerning the Albanian authorities’s violent raid of the MEK camp.

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., tweeted: “Deeply involved that throughout Europe – and particularly proper now, France and Albania – our allies are appeasing the Iranian regime and cracking down on anti-regime dissidents.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas., additionally condemned the raid in a collection of tweets.

When requested concerning the Albanian raid on the MEK and whether or not the Biden administration goes comfortable on Iran’s regime to secure a mini-nuclear deal with Tehran, a U.S. State Division spokesperson advised Fox Information Digital, “We perceive that on June 20 the Albanian State Police entered the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) compound in Durres, Albania to execute a courtroom order. “

The U.S. State spokesperson added, “The Albanian State Police have assured us that every one actions have been performed in accordance with relevant legal guidelines, together with with regard to the safety of the rights and freedoms of all individuals in Albania. We help the Authorities of Albania’s proper to analyze any potential unlawful actions inside its territory.”

Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., who sits on the Home Overseas Affairs Committee, advised Fox Information Digital, “It’s deeply regarding that Albanian officers are obfuscating reality on this state of affairs by denying the presence of violence. These assertions solely deepen impressions that there was wrongdoing on the a part of regulation enforcement concerned on this raid. I urge the Biden administration to judge this example and never sacrifice justice as the results of any backroom negotiations going down with Iran.”

Individuals wave flags throughout at an occasion in Ashraf-3 camp, which is a base for MEK in Manza, Albania, July 13, 2019. (Reuters/Florion Goga)

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Albania’s embassy in Washington, D.C., wrote Fox Information Digital, “We can not tolerate that our territory be used to have interaction in unlawful, subversive and political exercise in opposition to different international locations, as has allegedly been the case with the MEK.”

The Albanian embassy stated, “Pepper spray was solely utilized in plenty of restricted circumstances so as to management the unstable state of affairs, however at no level in the course of the search operation bodily power was utilized by the State Police.”

In line with critics of the White Home’s Iran coverage, the Biden administration goes to nice lengths to safe a short-term settlement with Iran that would offer no less than  $17 billion to the mullah regime in trade for momentary restrictions on Tehran’s alleged illicit nuclear weapons program.

Iranian dissidents pepper sprayed in Albanian raid within the Ashraf-3 and Ashraf-4 camps on June 20, 2023. (Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran )

United In opposition to Nuclear Iran’s (UANI) chairman, former Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, and CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, stated on Friday, “The press studies about an ‘understanding’ between the Islamic Republic and the USA over the nuclear file are regarding as a result of they danger legitimizing its enrichment at 60% purity, even when the product is downblended, which has no credible civilian justification.”

Lieberman and Wallace added, “This represents a collapse of the worldwide negotiating place on Iran’s nuclear program, which morphed from zero enrichment earlier than 2013 to now tolerating 60% enrichment in 2023. The shortage of any penalties to thwart Iran’s nuclear escalation is a vindication of [Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei’s technique and an indictment of our personal.”

Former U.S. Secretaries of State, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, performed a key function within the resettlement of the Iranians from Iraq to Albania.

An Iranian navy truck carries surface-to-air missiles previous a portrait of Iran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, throughout a parade on April 18, 2018, in Tehran. (Atta Kenare/AFP through Getty Photographs)

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A State Division spokesperson advised Fox Information Digital, “U.S. Particular Presidential Envoy for Local weather Kerry is targeted on local weather coverage and we’d refer you to the feedback we have already offered on this situation.” A Fox Information Digital press question despatched to the Clinton Basis was not returned.

Ali Safavi, a consultant of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran, whose important member is the MEK, advised Fox Information Digital “We have seen this film earlier than, a poorly scripted and cheaply produced spectacle. It options Foggy Backside’s repeated and failed makes an attempt to appease the mullahs’ medieval regime. From the Iran-contra scandal of 1985, to a distorted report in 1994, to misplaced goodwill gestures in 1997, and the ill-advised quid-pro-quo involving the MEK earlier than the Iraq battle in 2003, the State Division’s narrative stays predictably and tragically the identical: unjustly vilifying the Mujahedin-e Khalq to placate the murderous tyrants ruling Iran.”

He added, “These futile and unconscionable concessions have yielded no outcomes and won’t achieve this now or sooner or later. The legitimacy of the MEK doesn’t emanate from the State Division’s preposterous proclamations however is as a substitute deeply anchored in its unwavering six-decade-long battle and the heavy toll it has paid within the quest for freedom in Iran.”

Ali Safavi, a consultant of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran, speaks on Feb. 11, 2019, on the Prospects of Change in Iran convention. (NCRI-US)

The U.S. State Division stated it “continues to have critical issues concerning the MEK as a company, together with allegations of abuse dedicated in opposition to its personal members.” The State Division added that the White Home doesn’t think about the MEK “a viable democratic opposition motion that’s consultant of the Iranian folks.”

Sali Berisha, the previous prime minister of Albania (2005-2013) who’s at the moment an MP for the conservative Democratic Social gathering of Albania, advised Fox Information Digital there was “little doubt” that the raid was an effort to appease the Iranian regime.

“I requested in Parliament that the Inside Minister [Bledi Cuci] ought to resign as a result of a man was killed and 100 folks have been injured, “stated Berisha, who additionally served because the nation’s president in Nineteen Nineties.

Sali Berisha, chief of the conservative opposition addresses the Albanian Parliament in Tirana. (Sali Berisha)

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sanctioned Berisha in 2021 on account of alleged “involvement in important corruption.” Blinken has barred the previous prime minister from coming into the U.S. Berisha has flatly denied the accusation of corruption and declared the false info leveled in opposition to him stems from the controversial billionaire investor, George Soros and the present prime minister of Albania, Edi Rama.

Former Congressman Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., accused the Biden administration of punishing Berisha as a result of he’s an ally of the Republicans and opposes the ultra-liberal Soros.

Iran celebrated Albania’s raid of the MEK camp. In line with a report within the Tasnim Information Company, “What occurred in Albania was really the results of the facility of diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a group of actions by totally different establishments.”

The U.S. Division of State on Jan. 6, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Mark Wilson/Getty Photographs)

Tasnim is affiliated with the U.S.-sanctioned terrorist group, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The information group, Kayhan, which is the mouthpiece for the supreme chief of Iran, Ali Khamenei, stated, “The occasions of Tuesday in France and Albania ought to be clearly seen because the exemplary prowess of the Islamic Republic and the desperation of the West in its 44-year effort to confront Iran. “

The raid on the MEK camp coincides with the French authorities canceling a NCRI rally in July and the Belgian authorities releasing a convicted Iranian diplomat for a deliberate mass homicide bombing of an MEK convention, in trade for a kidnapped Belgian support employee held in Iran. 

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The U.S. added the MEK to its terrorist record in 1997 on account of its reported killing of People in Iran in Nineteen Seventies. However by 2012 the State Division eliminated them from its terror record as a result of the group renounced violence.

The group, sworn enemy of the Iranian regime, left its camp in Iraq in 2013 underneath a U.N.-U.S.-brokered settlement the place 1000’s of its members resettled in Albania.