The British Committee for Iran Freedom (BCFIF) is deeply concerned over the recent arrest of dozens of workers and their representatives in the South-western city of Ahvaz.
We applaud the decision by the Albanian government and the Prime Minister Edi Rama to expel Iran’s ambassador and another Iranian diplomat for plotting terrorist attacks in the country.
It has recently been brought to the attention of our committee that the Channel 4 News is planning to broadcast a report it made about the Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the principal member of Iran’s broader democratic opposition coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and its members now living in Albania.
On the eve of a visit by Hassan Rouhani to Switzerland and Austria, Belgian prosecutors announced today the arrest of two Iranians in Belgium and an Iranian “diplomat” in Germany for “attempted terrorist murder and the preparation of a terrorist offence.”