When the Supreme Leader Speaks, Who Still Listens?

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  By: Struan Stevenson Mojtaba Khamenei inherited the most powerful office in the Islamic Republic. Yet six months into his tenure, a question once considered unthinkable is surfacing in Tehran. When the Supreme Leader speaks, who still listens? For almost five decades, the answer was obvious. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini created a system in which factional warfare could rage beneath the surface, provided everyone ultimately bowed to the Supreme Leader. Ali Khamenei preserved that arrangement for more than three decades. Presidents came and went. Clerics competed. The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) accumulated power. Yet one principle remained sacrosanct. The Supreme Leader had the final word. Today that principle is under strain. On August 28, Mojtaba Khamenei warned officials against creating false choices between war and negotiation, compromise and confrontation. He urged them to avoid publicizing weaknesses and declared that anything damaging social cohesion was forbidden. The mess...
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Albanian authorities target Iranian terror network plotting attacks against MEK in Ashraf 3

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 By Matin Karim

Albania’s Special Structure for Combatting Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK), acting on orders issued by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, detained and interrogated 20 Iranians for conducting espionage operations in Albania for the Iranian regime, according to Albanian media reports on July 16. Albanian Police raided eight apartments, four offices, and several buildings where the Iranian regime agents resided in and used to carry out their suspicious prohibited activities against the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in their Ashraf 3 complex, located near Tirana, the capital of Albania.



One of the searched buildings, known as the ASILA Association, is a front entity launched by the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) in Albania under the guise of a non-government organization, was also searched.

These individuals had been under investigation for four years, according to Albanian authorities, and are suspected of pursuing their espionage on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), an entity designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), according to EuroNews Albania.

On July 12, the Special Court for Combatting Corruption and Organized Crime in Albania issued search warrants for premises and property associated with the following Iranian regime agents: Hassan Heyrani, Mehdi Soleimani, Gholamreza Shekari, Mostafa Beheshti, Abdolrahman Mohammadian, Hassan Shahbaz, Sarfaraz Rahimi, Mahmoud Dehghan Gourabi, Mohammad Reza Seddigh, Reza Islami, and Ali Hajari. Authorities also confiscated all their electronic equipment, including mobile phones, computers, tape recorders, and documents.

Albanian authorities conducted their operations to prevent “any possible terrorist attack,” according to Albanian media citing a court order. These individuals are accused of “receiving money from Iran’s secret services, the Qods Force, and the IRGC to obtain information about the MEK in Albania,” the court order further explains.

SPAK authorities raided a terrorist cell back in 2019, according to a July 16 report published by The Balkan Web. News 24 has disclosed the complete investigation file, indicating that the terrorist cell had planned to target senior MEK official Mehdi Abrishamchi in Albania. This cell was also monitoring other MEK members in Albania.

These latest developments in Albania are directly tied to Bijan Pooladrag, another Iranian regime agent arrested by Albanian authorities two years ago.

“The individuals in question are suspected of being members of a spy group, where Bijan Pooladrag, a former member of the MEK, was previously arrested… He is accused by SPAK of being part of a terrorist cell that intended to attack senior officials of the Iranian opposition, who live in Ashraf 3. He received orders and instructions through the Telegram application. And according to the investigations, the assassination of one of the senior members of the Mujahedin Khalq was being planned.  One of Iran’s intelligence officers had ordered the defendant to procure a Kalashnikov machinegun in the black market and find trained people who could commit murder,” News24 added.

On February 17, 2021, Hadi Sani Khani, an Iranian national who had left the MEK’s ranks in 2016, wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres revealing his four-year long collaboration with the same individuals, especially Hassan Heyrani, the ringleader and liaison between the mullahs’ network of agents in Albania and the Iranian regime embassy in Tirana.

“During this period, I began to collaborate with official agents of the MOIS in the Embassy in Albania…. and MOIS agents, including Ebrahim and Massoud Khodabandeh, Gholamreza Shekari and Ehsan Bidi, and later Hassan Heyrani. They used me in demonization, espionage, intelligence gathering, and reconnoitering schemes to carry out terrorist actions against the MEK,” Sani Khani wrote.

This article was first published by english.mojahedin

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