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Iranian spies in Germany targeted Israel embassy and Jewish kindergartens

Jan 18, 2018 6:22 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Suspected Iranian spies across Germany have been allegedly monitoring Israeli and Jewish targets, including the embassy, the local Jewish community and even kindergarten children.

This alarming news about Iranian spies is not a first, and it should be cause for concern as to how far Iran is willing to encroach upon Western societies, and for what exact purpose. This adds to the existing concerns that Western governments are infiltrated with Muslim Brotherhood operatives. Now we are also seeing Iranian’s proxies employing fifth column tactics to infiltrate the West. But these subjects are rarely addressed in the media.

Similar Iranian espionage was uncovered in 2012 in Canada. David Harris, former head of operations for the Canadian Intelligence Service and now a strategic intelligence expert, warned that Iran was expanding a “fifth column” in Canada. This warning was also articulated by many expatriates who explained about the threat of Iranian diplomats conspiring in Canada and the stealth workings of the Hezbollah jihad terrorist organization, and who provided evidence of Iranian infiltration in the school system.

Abolfazl Eslami, a former diplomat from Iran who worked as a counsellor at the Iranian embassy in Japan, while emphasizing Canada, also warned about Iran propagating its agenda globally through its embassies. Eslami indicates that such tactics are not new: Iran has  been manipulating Iranians in Canada and other countries for years.

Israel’s ambassador to Germany points out that “the time has come for the Germans and the Europeans to understand what is hidden behind the Iranian smile of recent months,” and rightly warns that “the affair should raise a red flag not only in Germany, but in all of Europe.” Add Canada to that, given the situation in Canada which eventually led to the shutting down of the Iranian embassy under the Conservative government.

Meanwhile:

Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security… has detained a government employee for allegedly spying on behalf of state-sponsor of terror Iran, a move that appears to confirm that the pro-Taliban Islamic Republic has been expanding its covert operations in the U.S.-backed nation.

“Iranian spies in Germany targeted Israel embassy, Jewish kindergartens — report”, The Times of Israel, January 17, 2018:

The German journalist who first reported raids by local security forces at the homes of suspected Iranian spies across Germany supplied new details Wednesday about the Israeli and Jewish targets allegedly monitored by the suspects.

Josef Hufelschulte, of the weekly German-language magazine FOCUS, told Israeli public broadcaster Kan that the suspected spies had been gathering information on the Israeli embassy in Berlin, as well as on targets related to the local Jewish community, including kindergartens.

The operatives were monitored by German intelligence services for two months before the raids were conducted, Hufelschulte said.

On Tuesday, German authorities said they were conducting searches across the country in connection with 10 suspected Iranian spies, with FOCUS magazine claiming that they were members of an elite military force that had been eyeing Israeli and Jewish targets.

The report said that arrest warrants for the suspects listed them as members of the al-Quds force, which is part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States.

Later on Tuesday, Kan reported that the Israeli Mossad intelligence service had provided critical information that led to the raids. According to the report, the al-Quds Force had tried to recruit non-Iranian Shiites — primarily those with European citizenship — to establish a terror cell to carry out attacks throughout the continent.

But German prosecutors said authorities searched premises linked to the suspected Iranian spies following an extensive investigation by the country’s domestic intelligence agency.

Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Jeremy Issacharoff, told Kan that “the affair should raise a red flag not only in Germany, but in all of Europe.”

“The time has come for the Germans and the Europeans to understand what is hidden behind the Iranian smile of recent months,” the ambassador added…….

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Filed Under: European Union, Featured, Germany, Islamic antisemitism, Israel, Leftist/Islamic Alliance Tagged With: al-Quds force, Focus magazine, Iranian spies, Josef Hufelschulte


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  1. StellaSaidSo says

    Jan 18, 2018 at 6:56 am

    The Muslim Brotherhood has been infiltrating Western governments and institutions for decades. It should come as no surprise that the Iranians have been busily expanding their own terror networks in Europe. Espionage is, after all, the second oldest profession in the world. Hats off to Mossad (again) for providing the critical information which led to the raids. Presumably some of the ‘premises linked to the suspected Iranian spies’ mentioned in the article were mosques and madrassas. It is about time every single one of these, in every single Western country which has allowed their construction, was monitored regularly and subject to inspection without notice.

    • underbed cat says

      Jan 18, 2018 at 9:58 am

      The Islamic Republic of Iran, with the Islamic iranian Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic mosques and
      Islmaic madrassas that teach the Islamic Quran and Islamic legal code.that passes for a religion is really a doctrine of warfare and deception. So in my opinion they should be closed down…and kept on the other side of the border or the mischievious trouble will never end.

  2. CRUSADER says

    Jan 18, 2018 at 8:23 am

    Haven’t Muslims got anything better to do?

    • Phil Copson says

      Jan 18, 2018 at 8:47 am

      As a Dutch friend of mine described them: “Fools without hobbies” – let’s face it, anyone who can find time to go to a mosque 35 times a week is seriously deficient in outside interests.

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Jan 18, 2018 at 12:54 pm

        That’s not all they’re seriously deficient in. The average Muslim IQ is about 20 points lower than that of the average European, mainly due to 1400 years of inbreeding. The fact that they are brainwashed from birth, and generally poorly educated, further limits capacity for intellectual development. Vitamin D deficiency in expectant mothers who spend their days in body bags impacts negatively on foetal development. To top it off, the smart ones figure out that Islam is bollocks, and become apostates. I never met an ex-Muslim who was stupid, or a devout Muslim who wasn’t.

        • Carol says

          Jan 19, 2018 at 9:55 pm

          Here’s a very interesting 2016 interview with a smart ex-muslim (Iranian/Persian). He discusses the ultimate goal of Islam, the 2009 Iranian revolt, the damage Obama was causing, what the Islamic regime in Iran wants to accomplish and what it is capable of doing, and how ordinary Persians really feel about Jews etc. (approx. 5:00 to end). I think we owe it to present-day protesters and the world not to confuse these basically Persian people with mini-Ahmadinejads:

          “They’re brainwashed, the whole nation is” Ex-muslim warns the world about Islam!!!

    • esther aron says

      Jan 18, 2018 at 10:26 am

      nope—-they got nothing better to do. Even in the mosques—-they got nothing better
      to do than to repetitiously laud the imaginary “accomplishments” of their “prophet”—-and “curse”
      his imaginary “enemies” with death threats

    • mortimer says

      Jan 18, 2018 at 10:30 am

      There can be nothing more despicable than targeting JEWISH NURSERIES and DAYCARES!

      These spies should be put on the first airplane out.

  3. mortimer says

    Jan 18, 2018 at 10:08 am

    The German complicity with Islam goes back to WWI. There is no benefit to German to be had from this complicity. Germany will destroy itself forever if Islam goes any further in Germany.

  4. Frank Anderson says

    Jan 18, 2018 at 10:37 am

    I can’t help observing that all of Israel’s submarines (6?) were built in Germany. And from what I understand these are pretty good boats! Confusing, isn’t it!

  5. Older Canadian says

    Jan 18, 2018 at 11:53 am

    And in Canada Trudeau wants to reopen the Iranian Embassy that the former conservative government closed and deported all of them because they were caught spying.

    This article reinforces two things. 1. our former conservative government was right, and 2. our present government controlled by trudeau is following in merkels footsteps.

    Germany. How much longer can this go on.

  6. Andy says

    Jan 18, 2018 at 11:57 am

    SOROS ADMITS: ‘The Dominant Ideology in the World Now is Nationalism’!!!

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jan 18, 2018 at 8:52 pm

      He means it’s the most troubling and predicted shift of a small minority of citizens in the West, who are wise to his and his one world government buddies plans to engineer their strong and stable nations out of existence.

      Having disarmed literally and figuratively most of the civilized world apart from the US, they know that only ones who might even have a chance of disrupting, for a moment, their goal of complete domination are people who aren’t too keen on dissolving their borders or accepting a bazillion migrants.

      Hence, they must be demonized at every level, shamed out of speaking up and, if that fails, imprisoned or executed.

      Exaggerating the ‘threat’ of nationalism is a good start.

  7. elee says

    Jan 18, 2018 at 2:20 pm

    I am hoping that our authorities are monitoring parallel connections between the Shia Persian fifth column and Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkish Sunni fifth column. Erdogan has publicly acknowledged using his exported imams in Europe to gather intelligence and undermining western culture. And that’s just what he’s seen fit to brag about! Ohand……the network is here too……

  8. gravenimage says

    Jan 18, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    Iranian spies in Germany targeted Israel embassy and Jewish kindergartens
    ……………..

    More from the “brave lions of Islam”, I see…sarc/off

  9. Yitz says

    Jan 19, 2018 at 10:05 am

    What do you expect with trudeau as pm.the far left has taken over Canada

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