Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A devastating 13-page report by the Microsoft Detection and Response Team has revealed that cyberattacks this year, which crippled government security services and institutions in Albania, were the work of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Albania has been a member of NATO since 2009 and immediately secured widespread support from NATO allies around the world who joined the condemnation of Iran for the reckless attack. The Microsoft report traced the origin of the cyberattacks directly to the Ministry of Intelligence and Security in Tehran and highlighted how the mullahs' regime had targeted the Albanian government because of their anger at the presence of Ashraf 3, the headquarters of the Iranian resistance, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, MEK, in Durres County, 19 miles west of the capital city Tirana.
The Albanian government agreed to host more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents when they were airlifted to Tirana in 2016, after repeated deadly attacks on their camps -- Ashraf 1 and 2 in Iraq, aided and abetted by the Iranian regime. Ashraf 3 was built by the MEK on previously undeveloped farmland and has grown into a small city. A major summit meeting in Ashraf 3, involving invited political leaders from America, Europe and many other countries, was cancelled by the Albanian government at the last moment in July, when terrorist threats were uncovered and the cyberattack occurred.