On July 24, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) banned the Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH), charging it with propagating the establishment of authoritarian Islamic rule. As a direct representative of the Iranian “revolutionary leader,” the IZH is spreading the ideology of “Islamic Revolution” in Germany in an aggressive and militant manner, according to a statement Faeser’s ministry on yesterday. Further, police carried out a raid on the Blue Mosque.
In a quick response, the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the German Ambassador to Tehran within hours of the raid, protesting against the ban of the center and urging Germany not to walk into the traps laid out by anti-Iranian and pro-Israeli circles.
