|
|
|
|
Steven Emerson,
Executive Director
|
April 24, 2017
|
|
|
Germany:
Iran Plotting Terror on Jewish and Israeli Targets
by IPT News • Apr 24, 2017 at
3:12 pm
|
|
|
|
Share:  
|
  Be the
first of your friends to like this
Iran is responsible for a significant amount of espionage activity in Germany over the past decade, and
is responsible for planning terrorist attacks on Israeli and Jewish
targets, the Jerusalem Post reports.
In a letter sent to a Left Party deputy from German's interior ministry,
the federal government launched 22 criminal investigations concerning
Iran's illegal espionage activity – more than China and Turkey who were
suspected in 15 spy cases each. Only Russia, with 27 cases, is involved in
more suspected espionage activity than Iran.
In one case, German prosecutors allege that Haidar Syed-Naqfi was
ordered to identify Jewish and Israeli institutions in Germany and other
Western European countries as potential targets for terrorist attacks. For
example, he was accused of monitoring the headquarters of a Jewish
newspaper in Berlin. Syed-Naqfi also identified several Israel supporters,
including the former chief of the German-Israel Friendship Society and a French-Israeli
business professor. German authorities believe his preparations were
"a clear indication of an assassination attempt."
Between July 2015 and July 2016, Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps'
(IRGC) al-Quds Force paid Syed-Naqi more than $2,200.
Half of Germany's state governments reported Iranian attempts to acquire
material related to nuclear activities in 2015, the Post reports An
examination of intelligence sources in 2016 also produced new revelations
surrounding Iran's chemical and biological weapons programs.
Iran pursued German businesses in the Rhineland-Palatinate state seeking
dual-use goods that could be "used for atomic, biological and chemical
weapons in a war," according to that state's intelligence report.
An estimated 250 active Iranian-backed Hizballah operatives, out of
about 950 Hizballah members throughout Germany, according to a 2014 Berlin
intelligence report summarized by the Post.
Last month, Bahrain security authorities arrested members of an Iranian-sponsored terrorist cell,
accusing them of planning to assassinate senior government officials.
The IRGC reportedly provided military training to several cell members.
Iran has been accused of plotting
terrorist attacks in recent years – mainly through proxies like Hizballah and IRGC's Quds
Force – in countries such as Egypt, Cyprus, Georgia, Thailand, India and
others. In July 2012, a bus bomb widely attributed to Hizballah killed five Israeli tourists and a bus driver in
Bulgaria.
In October 2011, the United Stated disrupted an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington
D.C. and bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies in the U.S. capital.
|
The IPT accepts no funding from
outside the United States, or from any governmental agency or political or
religious institutions. Your support of The Investigative Project on
Terrorism is critical in winning a battle we cannot afford to lose. All
donations are tax-deductible. Click here to donate online. The
Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation is a recognized 501(c)3
organization.
202-363-8602
- main
202-966-5191
- fax
|
|
Print
Send
RSS
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment