On April 14, Senator John McCain visited Albania, lately becoming the permanent
residence of the vast majority of the 3,000 Iranian dissidents evacuated from
the former US military base of Camp Liberty in Iraq. McCain met with
a number of that community’s former residents, many of whom lost loved ones in
a series of attacks carried out by Iran-backed proxies in Iraq.
There are 3,000more pro-democratic activists working in stable conditions to bring about the
end of the theocratic dictatorship and return self-determination to the Iranian
people.
Senator
McCain also met with Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the People’s
Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and the president of its parent
organization the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
The visit metwith a predictably irate response from the Iranian mullahs, who insisted it was
part of an incorrect and “obscene” set of policies toward the Islamic Republic.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry also claimed, vaguely, that the US would “pay” for
its “mistakes.” But for McCain’s hosts at the Iranian Resistance’s new centers
in Albania, the regime’s anger is a positive sign, insofar as it betrays
Tehran’s weakness and anxiety. In a statement released
after McCain’s visit, the NCRI declared that the Foreign Ministry’s comments
were indicative of “fear of the adoption of a firm policy vis-a-vis the
clerical regime and its export of terrorism and extremism, a policy that the Iranian
Resistance has sought for years.”
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