Iran summoned the German ambassador to Tehran on Wednesday after German justice reported the involvement of the Iranian government in a plan to burn down a place of Jewish worship in Bochum (west) in 2022 .
On Tuesday, a regional court in Düsseldorf (west) sentenced a German-Iranian man to two years and nine months in prison for a plan to attack a synagogue in Bochum in November 2022. The German court further concluded that the attack had been planned with the help of “Iranian state agencies”.
High tensions in Germany since war between Hamas and Israel
The German Foreign Ministry then announced that it had summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires, indicating that Berlin “does not tolerate any violence guided from abroad in Germany.” In response, Iranian diplomacy indicated in a press release that it had summoned the German ambassador to protest against the “unfounded accusation” of the German justice system and the summoning of its diplomat to Berlin.
“We recommend that Germany be wary of the traps woven by destructive currents, instead of making accusations and satisfying the desire of the Zionist regime (Israel, Editor’s note) to create tensions,” it is added in the text of the Iranian ministry.
Berlin has been worried for several years about the resurgence of anti-Jewish sentiment on its territory. The war between Hamas and Israel has exacerbated tensions in Germany where anti-Semitic incidents are increasing, such as the attack on a Berlin synagogue with Molotov cocktails in October.