Amid the ongoing US-Israeli bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic, the Albanian parliament adopts a resolution designating Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism and declaring Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.
“For Albania, this is not just a distant geopolitical issue,” says Taulant Balla, head of Albania’s Socialist parliamentary group, adding that the resolution aims to denounce state support for terrorism, the use of proxy groups for destabilization and hybrid tactics including cyberattacks on sovereign institutions.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s office calls the move “a clear moral dimension in Albania’s foreign policy,” saying in a statement that the decision followed an appeal by Sa’ar to Albanian Foreign Minister Igli Hasani on the matter last week.
Sa’ar has repeatedly called on the international community to cut ties with Iran since the aerial assault began over two weeks ago.
Albania’s government severed diplomatic ties with Iran in 2022, after blaming it for a cyberattack that disrupted government information technology systems and shut down online public services for several days.
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