After the verdict: Foreign Office summons Iranian ambassador

Berlin. After the conviction of two men for secret service activity on behalf of Iran and attempted involvement in murder and aggravated arson, the Foreign Office summoned the Iranian ambassador. "We condemn Iran's activities in the strongest possible terms. We will not allow Iran to threaten our free society," the Foreign Office said on Platform X.

Last week, the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg sentenced a 54-year-old man to eight and a half years in prison and a 43-year-old to four and a half years in prison. The judges saw it as proven that the two men living in Denmark had spied on the President of the Central Council of Jews, Josef Schuster, and the President of the German-Israeli Society, Volker Beck.

The court is convinced that these actions served to prepare state terrorist attacks, specifically an assassination attempt on Beck. The 54-year-old received his orders directly from officers of the so-called Al-Kuds Brigades, the foreign unit of the Revolutionary Guard. This man also made preparations for an arson attack on a kosher food store in Berlin.

“We do not tolerate attacks on Jewish life and those who defend it - anywhere, especially not in Germany,” wrote the Foreign Office on X. The malicious attacks against Schuster and Beck would have legal consequences. "We have already campaigned to ensure that the masterminds of Iranian attacks worldwide and the oppressors of the Iranian civilian population, the Revolutionary Guards, were finally listed as terrorists in the EU. With success."