The administration of US President Donald Trump has launched a diplomatic campaign to push governments around the world to further isolate key structures of the Iranian regime.
According to a diplomatic cable sent to all US diplomatic missions on Monday, the State Department has asked US embassies and consulates to call on host governments to declare Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah in Lebanon as terrorist organizations.
The cable, reviewed by the Washington Post, instructs US diplomats to convey this message by Friday “to the highest appropriate level” of the governments to which they are accredited. The document also states that US diplomatic missions should coordinate, as appropriate, with Israeli diplomats to push this initiative forward.
In this context, today's session in the Albanian Parliament is taking place, where a resolution condemning the Iranian regime and calling for the declaration of the IRGC as a terrorist organization is expected to be adopted.
According to diplomatic developments reported by the Washington Post, the Albanian government's initiative can also be seen as an attempt by Prime Minister Edi Rama to preempt this international pressure, signaling political loyalty to the US administration and positioning Albania among the first countries to publicly align themselves with this line.
The parliamentary session is expected to take place without the presence of the Democratic Party, which has warned that it will not participate in the vote on this resolution.
