Albania on Tuesday designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a “terrorist organisation” and Iran as a state “supporting terrorism” as the Middle East war raged on.
The Balkan nation’s ruling Socialist party used its parliamentary majority to adopt a resolution to designate the ideological arm of the Iranian military despite an opposition boycott.
“The Albanian parliament declares the Islamic Republic of Iran a state that supports terrorism and a state that uses terrorist means in the pursuit of its foreign policy objectives,” the resolution said.
The document also condemned cyberattacks believed to be carried out by Iran-linked hackers against its institutions, including an incident earlier this month targeting its parliamentary IT system.
A cyberattack in 2022 triggered Tirana to sever diplomatic ties with Iran.
Albania has for years hosted several thousand members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), an exiled Iranian opposition group considered as “terrorist” by Tehran.
The United States has already designated the Guards as a “terrorist organisation”.
The European Union followed in January after the deadly crackdown carried out by the authorities against Iranian protesters.
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