In a world where great powers move with strategic calculators and terrifying geopolitical equations, Edi Rama decided to simplify the matter: call the Iranian Revolutionary Guard by its proper name. Terrorists.
The Albanian prime minister, at a time when tensions in the Middle East are at boiling point, took the position of a classroom teacher: "Terrorism must be named. And once it is named, it must be stopped."
Essentially, Rama is asking Europe to do what the US and Canada have long done: put the Guard on the list of terrorist organizations. And he presents this not as a political choice, but as a matter of moral clarity.
The irony? Albania – a small country on the map of global powers – is speaking to Europe in the tone of someone who has run out of patience with diplomatic nuance. At a time when Brussels is calculating the consequences, Tirana is demanding a decision.
If Europe hesitates, Tirana says it has no reason to hesitate.
And so, amidst grand global declarations, a Balkan prime minister reminds the continent that sometimes foreign policy is not a matter of careful vocabulary, but of the courage to use the right word.
