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Germany’s internal intelligence services believe IZH about the Iranian regime and the Lebanese Islamist group it supports Hezbollah leverage in Germany. In addition IZH having great influence on individual mosques and associations. The German government has classified Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
German Interior Minister Nancy Fesser announced on Wednesday that IZH the activity is banned for spreading extremism and that the police are investigating IZH managed Imam Ali Mosque, known locally as the Blue Mosque and is one of the oldest mosques in Germany. “It is important for me to clearly emphasize that we are not targeting a religion, but a group that is accused of threatening the German state and women’s rights as well,” the minister said. She said IZH was also being investigated for “spreading aggressive anti-Semitism.” Searches were already carried out in November IZH evidence of the group’s affiliation with Hezbollahwhich also led to the ban imposed on Wednesday.
A statement released by Germany’s interior ministry said it had banned the Hamburg Islamic Center and its affiliated organizations from operating in Germany because “they are extremist organizations that seek to achieve unconstitutional goals.” “As a direct representative of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the IZH spreads the ideology of the Islamic Revolution and strives to achieve such a revolution in the Federal Republic of Germany in an aggressive and militant style,” a statement from the German Interior Ministry quoted Associated Press.
Searches were carried out on 53 IZH and in properties managed by related organizations in Bremen, Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin. Four Shiite mosques closed.
Germany’s main Jewish organization, the Central Jewish Council, has welcomed the IZH ban. “The goal of the Iranian mullahs’ regime and its allies around the world is to destroy democracy and our way of life,” the organization’s president, Josef Schuster, said in a statement.
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