Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Albania in recent days, making the situation in this country very secure. The trip, which was unofficially coordinated by the US Embassy in Albania, was not planned for meeting with Edi Rama or Albanian political parties, but later revealed that the main reason for the trip was to meet with a terrorist group of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/MKO) and visit their camp in Tirana that, according to Mrs. Evi Kokalari’s revelation in the News Bomb website, the meeting was held for paying him the sum, estimated about $ 150,000, which was paid to him by a terrorist group of MEK to visit their camp in Tirana and attend and give a few minutes speech at a gathering of MEK that will be held in about the next two months.
Albania’s security situation has deteriorated to such an extent that troops and security forces can be seen all over Tirana. One might ask, why the security atmosphere are so tense? Because of the presence of a former US official? The reason is clear, Mike Pompeo was one of those who played a role in the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, and the Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly stated that it will take great revenge on the United States and the perpetrators of this assassination. Several perpetrators of the assassination were also killed in different parts of the world and just the main perpetrators such as Mike Pompeo and Donald Trump, are remaining. As a result, millions of dollars per each month are spending on securing the main characters of this assassination.
Albania, with a population of about three million, was a peaceful country in Eastern Europe. Before the arrival of the terrorist group of MEK in 2016, the people of this country were living in peace, but since the arrival of MEK, this country has been a place of refuge for terrorists. In the current situation, with the war between Russia and Ukraine, Albania is experiencing a great sense of insecurity, and for this reason, it strongly urges to join the European Union and use NATO security cover, and to this end, it does whatever the United States asks of it, such as sheltering elements of ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra and the terrorist group of MEK, which was on the US list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) until 2012 and has assassinated more than 12,000 Iranians, 4,000 Iraqi Kurds and 6 American advisers.
Another question that arises here is why the United States, and especially the American Republicans, have gathered such a high number of terrorists in a country with a low population like Albania? As you know, the United States was able to achieve victory over the Soviet Union during the Cold War by creating al-Qaeda, and the terrorist activities over the last century have been very beneficial to the United States, in terms of the US media, there is always talk of US counterterrorism, but on the battlefield we see that the group that has been targeted by US planes has been the anti-terrorism forces. The example for this subject is the fight against ISIS, in which US forces bombed the positions of the Iraqi and Syrian people’s forces (Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi forces). Whenever the United States senses danger from a country, it sends terrorism to that area, one of these countries is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
When the Iranian people overthrew the puppet monarchy of the United States in Iran, the United States began its enmity against this country. At first, with the beginning of the 8-year war, Saddam Hussein fought against Iran, and after the defeat of Saddam in this war, the United States turned to sanctions and terrorism, and supported the terrorist group of MEK, and carried out many terrorist acts by this group in Iran and one of these cases was the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists. This is why senior US officials such as John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Pompeo, etc. travel to the camp of this terrorist group or give speech at their annual gathering. They are trying to aggravate the situation in Iran with the cooperation of this group, which has almost lost its efficiency due to its members’ old age. On the other hand, Albania has a small population, and the reason for choosing this place to establish various terrorist groups is that if one day this country wants to confront these groups, it will never be able to stand against this number of trained terrorists and with just a serious measure, it will lose its entire country.
The Albanian government must know that whether it has the power to defend itself and deter the terrorist group of MEK and other terrorist elements, and if it is not able to deal with them, it must reduce their number in Albania, and this action must be taken as soon as possible so that Albanian officials will not regret it in the future. As for US support, it is important that the United States defends a country as long as it sees its own interests in it, and if one day US interests are not fulfilled, or, for example, the terrorist groups based in Albania lose their efficiency, as in the example of the growing disability of the terrorist group of MEK due to the senility of its members, it will easily stop supporting that country, as we saw in Ukraine, and at that time it would be too late for Albania to take other countermeasures.
Author : Alireza Niknam
Alireza Niknam is a human rights activist, writer, and research journalist who writes in the fields of Human rights issues and terrorist groups. He works for the news agencies of Geopolitica, Elzeviro, American Herald Tribune and etc.
Email: A.niknam.sp@gmail.com