Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Ghassemi has forthrightly condemned Albania, for expelling two Iranian diplomats, describing the country's behaviour as 'unacceptable'.

Iran news: Speaking on Saturday, Bahram Ghassemi said: "We had our protest delivered to Albania on Thursday, but the country has no embassy or diplomatic office in Iran, so we could not summon their ambassador or representative in order to protest or expel him or her," Iran Press reported.

Ghassemi added: "Albania has no embassy or diplomatic office of any kind in Iran, but Iran has had its protest delivered to Tirana, Albanian capital, regarding the unacceptable action. However, we conveyed to them our severe protest through other channels."

He said that Iran opened its embassy in Tirana some 30 years ago, but due to severe economic problems Albania couldn’t open an embassy in Tehran at the time.

Ghassemi added that on Thursday, under pressure from the US government and the Israeli intelligence service, and with cooperation of some anti-Iranian terror groups, Tirana expelled two Iranian diplomats.

He said: "This action is the continuation of the previous scenarios to sabotage Europe and Iran's relations in the present critical era."

Albania hosts thousands of members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), a notorious anti-Iran terror group.

The MKO has carried out numerous attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials over the past three decades and is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community.

Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, about 12,000 have fallen victim to MKO’s acts of terror.

Albania is not the first European country to make such claims against Iran.

Back in June, Belgian authorities said that an Iranian diplomat had been arrested along with a 38-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman, suspected of plotting a bomb attack on an MKO meeting in Paris attended by US President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and several former European and Arab ministers.

In July 1, some of the Iranians have gathered in The Place du Châtelet  in Paris  to protest against MKO. The protesters including those who have detached themselves from MKO or were the one whose members of family still work with the anti-Iran group.

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Assadollah Assadi, 46, was arrested in Germany and later extradited to Belgium in defiance of Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961.

Later on October 30, Danish intelligence chief Finn Borch Andersen claimed that an Iranian intelligence service had tried to carry out a plot to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition figure on Denmark’s soil.

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Swedish security police also said a Norwegian citizen of Iranian descent had been arrested on October 21 in connection with the alleged plot and extradited to Denmark.

Israeli media later revealed that the Israeli spy agency Mossad had provided Denmark with “intelligence” concerning the alleged plot by Tehran. 103

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