Top Channel serving Iranian regime, American senator reacts

It's Robert Torrichelli, former senator and former U.S. Congressman. Torricelli is the official representative of Iranian opposition MEK.

He, in an official statement, Torricelli has accused the Top Channel of taking sides with “a regime that turned crime”.

The fact that MOIS agents managed to access the free press should concern all Albanians. These efforts to poison the free debate of democratic nations are not new. This has happened in the United States and Europe.

When MEK members were in Iraq, agents of the Iranian regime used the same propaganda. Through the media in Iraq, the scenario of terrorist attacks was prepared at Camp Ashraf. During these attacks, 140 were killed and more than a thousand injured”

So said Senator Torricelli, who declared the Iranian opposition backed by the US.

In 2014, 4 thousand members of the Iranian opposition arrived in Albania.

There is a growing concern in the United States, even among members of Congress, about the Iranian regime's growing malicious activities in the Balkans.

The Iranian opposition NNCRI found last week that the Iranian regime has recently appointed Mostafa Roodaki, a veteran MOIS agent, as the first secretary of the regime's embassy in Albania.

Furthermore, he claimed that, “paying money, Roodaki uses former members to carry out MOIS plots against PMOI / MEK”, Torricelli said.

Torricel's full statement:

On Monday, February 13, 2018, the Top Channel television station, in its programme Fix Far, broadcast a completely distorted and false report about the Iranian democratic opposition, Iran's Association of People's Mojahedin (MEK), which reiterated the boring and controversial accusations of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) of the notorious Iranian regime.

It should bother all Albanians that MOIS agents were able to flow from free press in Albania to spread their propaganda against MEK and Iranian refugees in Albania. These attempts to poison the free debate of democratic nations are not new, and what you are experiencing has occurred in the United States and Europe. While MEK members were in Iraq, Iranian regime agents used the same propaganda via the Iraq media to prepare the scenario of their terrorist attacks on MEK members at the Ashraf Camp and then Camp Liberty. During these attacks, 140 people were killed and more than a thousand injured.

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry has diligently attempted to undermine relations with refugees through the false collapses of terrorism, austerity and authoritarianism. When this propaganda came down, these refugees were under the protection of the United States Army in Iraq. The charges led to thorough investigations, which considered the charges completely false.

. I know something about their arguments. In 2011, Secretary Clinton asked me to present evidence to counter these false accusations. My argument followed a ruling by the U.S. Courts that found no credibility in the terrorism charges. Similar processes in Great Britain, Canada and France have achieved the same outcome. MEK is not a terrorist organization. It is a legitimate political opposition, dedicated to a pluralistic, democratic and non-responsive Iran at peace with its neighbours and the world.

MEK enjoys widespread popular support in the US and Europe. It is considered to be a democratic organisation that requires the end of theocracy and the establishment of freedom and democracy in Iran. Iranian regime is significantly focused on MEK's popular support. During the recent demonstrations in Iran, regime leader Hassan Rouhan urged France's President Macro to silence MEK leaders in Paris. In the great tradition of French democracy, there was a prayer that fell on deaf ears.

There is a growing concern in the US, even among members of Congress, on the growing malicious activities of the Iranian regime in the Balkans. The Iranian opposition NNCRI found last week that the Iranian regime has recently appointed Mostafa Roodaki, a veteran MOIS agent, as the first secretary of the regime's embassy in Albania. Furthermore, he claimed that, “paying money, Roodaki uses former members to carry out MOIS plots against PMOI / MEK”.

I call on all Albanians, including free press members, to be vigilant in protecting their freedoms and to defend against all efforts to introduce propaganda and false accusations in the space of free and living expression that Albanians enjoy.