{"id":33784,"date":"2022-04-01T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=33784"},"modified":"2022-04-01T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:05:12","slug":"suspected-iranian-agent-sent-to-court-for-spying-in-on-mujahedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/suspected-iranian-agent-sent-to-court-for-spying-in-on-mujahedin\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Iranian agent sent to court for spying on Mujahedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPAK has closed in on an investigation into an Iranian citizen accused of terrorist activities.<\/p>\n<p>Bijan Pooladrag is suspected to have spied on the Mujahedin sheltered in Albania.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation commenced in 2019, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/spak.al\/2022\/04\/01\/njoftim-45\/\">according to SPAK<\/a><\/strong> the man carrying out espionage activities at the service of Iran\u2019s intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Allegedly Pooladrag wiretapped phones and computers in Albania for the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n<p>He was expelled from the mujahedin in September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that a similar occurrence takes place on Albanian soil, but a majority have been caught and sent to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2018, Albanian authorities prevented a planned terrorist attack ordered from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the Albanian government expelled two Iranian diplomats, including the ambassador, and accused them of being a threat to national security.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, they had planned a terrorist attack at a football match between Albania and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The move was also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/5f1edb0b69094a54a10e9445afe6b877\">commended by former US President Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Some 3,000 Iranian mujahedin are sheltered in Ashraf 3 camp, near Durres.<\/p>\n<p>Albania decided to take them in following a deal with the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2020\/10\/18\/suspected-of-working-for-the-secret-services-against-mek-iranian-declared-non-grata-by-albanian-ministry-of-internal-affairs\/\">Iranian allegedly working for secret services against MEK declared persona-non grata by Ministry of Internal Affairs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2020\/07\/22\/iranian-allegedly-spying-on-mujahideen-declared-persona-non-grata-from-albanian-authorities\/\">Iranian spy declared persona-non grata from Albanian authorities<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPAK has closed in on an investigation into an Iranian citizen accused of terrorist activities. Bijan Pooladrag is suspected to have spied on the Mujahedin sheltered in Albania. The investigation commenced in 2019, and according to SPAK the man carrying out espionage activities at the service of Iran\u2019s intelligence. Allegedly Pooladrag wiretapped phones and computers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":33785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[1077,1076,150,151,1078],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Suspected Iranian agent sent to court for spying on Mujahedin - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/suspected-iranian-agent-sent-to-court-for-spying-in-on-mujahedin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Suspected Iranian agent sent to court for spying on Mujahedin - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SPAK has closed in on an investigation into an Iranian citizen accused of terrorist activities. 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