http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12337897
Ireland is expelling a Russian diplomat over claims his country's intelligence services counterfeited Irish passports.
Due to the forged use of Irish Passports of some of the 10 Russian spies who were living in the United States, Ireland asked the unnamed Diplomat to leave jurisdiction. Ireland did not expect Russia to act in such a manner since they were in friendly relations. Moscow did not like this "unfounded" expulsion and stated it would retaliate.
I think Ireland took a correct action because if it just gave a warning, Russia would not have taken this seriously. Similarly, Dublin expelled an Israeli Diplomat in the same scenario of using five forged Irish passports.
Ireland is taking this matter seriously and will not allow other countries to steal the identities of Ireland's citizens.
This poses a threat to other countries when spies take advantage of Irish passports and use them to oversee things. In the case of the Russian spies who attended the parent-teacher association and posed on Facebook, this was known as the biggest US-Russia spy swap since the Cold War.
Ireland is definitely acting in its favor and showing others it will not tolerate this kind of atrocity.
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Elina Segal
Ta-Ryan Section 16199, 11 am
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