Albania expels 2 Iranian diplomats

TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s Foreign Ministry expels two Iranian diplomats for activities “not in line with their status.”

A ministry statement says the two diplomats, Mohammad Ali Arz Peimanemati and Seyed Ahmad Hosseini Alast, are declared persona non grata and asked to “immediately” leave Albania.

In December 2018, Albania expelled two other Iranian diplomats for “violating their diplomatic status” by allegedly engaging in unspecified illegal activities that threatened the country’s security.

Albania is home to about 2,500 members of the Iranian exile opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, which moved there from Iraq.

— AP