Embassy of Iran, as an operational center

19:37 19/09/2022

“We need cyber protection of the last word”

The decision of the Albanian government to cut ties with Iran has attracted the attention of the American media. Having just arrived in New York for the next session of the United Nations Assembly, Prime Minister Rama explained the reasons in an interview for Neës Max television, where Richard Grenell, the former US envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, was also on the panel. of this decision.

“We realized that it was time to cut off any kind of relationship with this regime because currently, we could no longer allow the embassy to continue to be in the middle of the capital and work as an operational center to harm our country. what we need now is to accelerate all our plans to build a cyber defense of the last word prepared for others to come because everyone knows that this regime is engaged in these types of activities around the world and it is quite worrying that this happens while the common defense response is still not where it needs to be.”

Asked if the Biden administration should follow Albania’s example by cutting off diplomatic relations with a country that kills homosexuals, women and carries out cyber attacks against NATO allies, Rama reserves a firm opinion, aware of the weight that Albania has as far as decision-making in the alliance is concerned.

“It is not for me to say. Of course we know our position and we know that the burden of making very big decisions is not on our shoulders, but since we have lived in a very similar regime for years, I can say from experience that taking the way of democratic countries, with such regimes, does not seem like a very forward-looking vision to me.”

The Prime Minister was also asked about the impact of the Ukrainian war on Albania. Even in this case, he spoke in the position of the prime minister of a country where neither Russian gas nor Russian propaganda have a significant impact, for the first because we depend on hydropower and secondly because Albanians, in an overwhelming percentage, believe in the West and not the East .

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