Germany Raids Homes of Suspected Iranian Agents

German police and intelligence agents have launched raids nationwide on the homes of Iranians suspected of plotting attacks on Israelis

Germany Raids Homes of Suspected Iranian Agents

BND headquarters, Berlin (Photo: AP)

German authorities on Tuesday conducted searches of homes and businesses belonging to ten suspected Iranian spies. According to Deutsche Welle, the Federal Prosecutors Office ordered the searches after receiving a tip from Germany's domestic intelligence agency.

No arrests were made during the raids, which were carried out in Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, and Berlin. The suspects are believed to have spied on persons and institutions "on behalf of an intelligence entity associated with Iran," the prosecutor's office said.

The German magazine Focus, which first reported on the searches, said that the ten individuals were suspected members of the al-Quds Brigade of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Focus reported that the ten persons are suspected of spying on Israeli and Jewish targets.

Earlier this month, Germany summoned Iran's ambassador in Berlin after a 31-year-old Pakistani student was convicted of spying for Iran on Social Democratic Party (SPD) politician Reinhold Robbe, former head of the German-Israel Friendship Society. 

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