German intelligence services suspect that some 700 people associated with the Mustafa Institute in Berlin are spying for Iran, the tabloid Bild reported the day before, October 28.
More than 700 people associated with the Mustafa Institute are suspected of carrying out covert work supposedly in the interests of official Tehran. It is alleged that the international educational center, which has branches around the world, including Germany, could be used by “Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force” as “a tool for recruitment, intelligence gathering and operations”.
The list of suspects prepared by German investigators included three groups of “potential Iranian agents”: 63 people with German passports, 551 Mustafa Institute students with “relations to Germany” and 78 so-called “German trainees.”
Following the publication of reports on the ongoing investigation, the opposition bloc of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) demanded that the head of the German Interior Ministry nancy pen immediately ban the activities of an Islamic educational organization in Germany.
“Iranian Islamic institutions in Germany must be closed immediately. The threat posed by Iran is obvious. The Home Secretary must no longer ignore this. Feser must ban these establishments immediately.” – stated the president of the CSU group in the Bundestag Alejandro Dobrindt.
Expert Christophe de Vriesrepresenting the CDU, also expressed concern and surprise at the fact that the head of the German Interior Ministry “has not closed the Berlin branch of the Mustafa Institute, which has been on the US and US sanctions lists for many years. Canada”.
“The university is a central link in the system for the expansion of Islamic fundamentalism and the recruitment of forces for the IRGC’s Quds Force,” – he stated.
