(National-UAE) Iran has turned to gang criminals in Germany to help it pursue and threaten regime critics living abroad, a spy chief said on Monday.
Thomas Haldenwang, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, named Iran and Turkey as two of four countries, along with Russia and China, threatening the safety of their citizens abroad. He said “concrete threats” had been made against people living in Germany.
Tehran has a particular interest in identifying and repressing people linked to the protests that erupted after a young woman’s death in the custody of Iranian morality police, Mr Haldenwang said. About 80,000 people joined one demonstration in Berlin after the Mahsa Amini movement spread to Europe in 2022.
