The Iranian Foreign Ministry said it had “strongly protested” to the German diplomat against a “hostile action” that was “contrary to the fundamental principles of human rights.”
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Iran summoned the German ambassador on Wednesday, July 24, after banning an Islamic association in Hamburg, suspected of supporting the pro-Iranian Lebanese movement Hezbollah and of spreading an anti-democratic ideology.
A few hours earlier, Germany had banned the entire country Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH)owner of a major Shiite mosque, as well as its affiliated organizations. “Following the action of the German police which closed a number of Islamic centres, the German ambassador was summoned today to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” Iranian diplomacy said in a statement.
Founded by Iranian immigrants in 1953, theThe Islamic Centre Hamburg operates, among other things, the Imam Ali Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, in the northern German metropolis.
