{"id":182453,"date":"2022-09-08T11:36:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T08:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182453"},"modified":"2022-09-08T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T08:36:51","slug":"iranian-diplomats-burn-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/iranian-diplomats-burn-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian diplomats burn documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182454\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3431066-2059733719.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3431066-2059733719.webp 670w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3431066-2059733719-300x200.webp 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3431066-2059733719-630x420.webp 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TIRANA: Iranian diplomats burned documents in the early morning on Thursday hours before they were to leave the country after Albania cut diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the Islamic Republic of an cyberattack in July.<br \/>\nIn a rare video address on Wednesday, Albania\u2019s Prime Minister Edi Rama said he had ordered Iranian diplomats and staff to close the embassy and leave the country within 24 hours.<br \/>\nRama said the July cyberattack has \u201cthreatened to paralyze public services, erase digital systems and hack into state records, steal government intranet electronic communication and stir chaos and insecurity in the country.\u201d<br \/>\nA Reuters witness saw a man from inside the embassy throwing papers in a rusted barrel, with flames illuminating the walls of the three-story embassy.<br \/>\nWashington, Albania\u2019s closest ally, also blamed Iran for the attack and promised to \u201ctake further action to hold Iran accountable for actions that threaten the security of a US ally.\u201d<br \/>\nTehran has strongly condemned Tirana\u2019s decision to cut its diplomatic ties calling as \u201cbaseless claims\u201d Albania\u2019s reasons for the move.<\/p>\n<p>Albania and Iran have had tense relations since 2014, when Albania accepted some 3,000 members of the exiled opposition group People\u2019s Mujahideen Organization of Iran, also known by its Farsi name Mujahideen-e-Khalq, who have settled in a camp near Durres, the country\u2019s main port.<br \/>\nDays after the cyberattack Tirana based media have reported that hackers have published personal data of the opposition members that were saved in Albania\u2019s state computers such as personal, social and security numbers, names and photos.<br \/>\nOn Thursday morning, it appeared calm outside the embassy in Tirana located just 200 meters (yards) away from the prime minister\u2019s office.<br \/>\nA black Audi with diplomatic car plates and darkened windows was seen going in and out as a police officer guarded the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIRANA: Iranian diplomats burned documents in the early morning on Thursday hours before they were to leave the country after Albania cut diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the Islamic Republic of an cyberattack in July. In a rare video address on Wednesday, Albania\u2019s Prime Minister Edi Rama said he had ordered Iranian diplomats and staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182455,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182453\/revisions\/182455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}