{"id":6827,"date":"2022-09-08T23:26:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2022-09-08T23:26:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:26:05","slug":"albanian-police-search-empty-iranian-embassy-after-papers-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/photonews\/2022\/09\/08\/news\/6827\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian police search empty Iranian embassy after papers burned"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6828\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/albania-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Albania\u2019s police special unit enter the Iranian embassy on Sept. 8, 2022. (Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TIRANA, Broadcasting News Corporation : Albanian counter-terrorism police searched the empty Iranian embassy in Tirana on Thursday, hours after Iranian diplomats burned papers inside the premises following the severing of diplomatic ties over a cyberattack. Albania cut diplomatic relations with Iran on Wednesday, when Prime Minister Edi Rama blamed the cyberattack, which took place in July, on the Islamic Republic, and gave its diplomats 24 hours to close the embassy and leave the country. The police, wearing masks and helmets and carrying automatic rifles, entered the building \u2014 situated just 200 meters (yards) from Rama\u2019s office \u2014 after two cars with diplomatic plates had left, a Reuters reporter saw. Thirty minutes later, the police were still inside. The same reporter earlier saw a man inside the embassy throwing papers into a rusty barrel, with flames illuminating the walls of the three-story building. In a rare video address on Wednesday, Rama 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 Washington, 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 Tehran condemned Tirana\u2019s decision to cut ties, describing the reasons for the move as \u201cbaseless claims.\u201d Bilateral relations have been tense since 2014, when Albania accepted some 3,000 members of the exiled opposition group People\u2019s Mujahideen Organization of Iran \u2014 also known by its Farsi name Mujahideen-e-Khalq \u2014 who have settled in a camp near Durres, the country\u2019s main port. Days after the July 15 cyberattack, Tirana-based media reported that hackers had 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. On Thursday morning, it appeared calm outside the embassy in Tirana located A black Audi with diplomatic car plates and darkened windows was seen going in and out as a police officer guarded the entrance. NEWS COLLECTED FROM ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIRANA, Broadcasting News Corporation : Albanian counter-terrorism police searched the empty Iranian embassy in Tirana on Thursday, hours after Iranian diplomats burned papers inside the premises following the severing of diplomatic ties over a cyberattack. Albania cut diplomatic relations with Iran on Wednesday, when Prime Minister Edi Rama blamed the cyberattack, which took place in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6829,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions\/6829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}