Hamburg

April 7, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany to end Funding of Extreme Pro-Iran-Regime Group After Media Exposés

Merkel refuses to shut down Hezbollah centers

January 21, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Anti-Assad Activist Hacked to Death in Germany

The mass-circulation daily Bild reported that an acquaintance of the victim told the publication that Joune was "likely murdered because of his political activities" against Assad.

December 22, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

U.S. ambassador urges inquiry of German magazine’s anti-Americanism

Der Spiegel faced criticism for its bias against the Jewish state.

December 21, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Report: German gov’t will ban Iran’s ‘terror’ Mahan Air

BILD reported that American politicians and security officials told the German government that American citizens are endangered at airports because of Mahan Air's activities in the Federal Republic.

December 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Merkel’s party rejects freeze of funds for Palestinian terrorism

embers of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union Party voted against a motion on Saturday in Hamburg to stop public funds for the Palestinian Authority’s payments to terrorists and...

October 24, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German bank holds account for soon-to-be-sanctioned Iran Air

Iran Air has been accused of aiding Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his war against Syrian opposition groups.

October 16, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘Anti-racism’ rally in Berlin calls for destruction of Israel

Demonstrators at the march hoisted symbols in support of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

September 25, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime

Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction.

August 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Foreign Minister in Hot Water Over Effort to Bypass Iran Sanctions

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is under fire for seeking to circumvent powerful pending US financial sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, betraying his country’s pledge to combat...

August 7, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German central bank blocks $400 million cash delivery to Iran ahead of crippling U.S. sanctions

The U.S. campaign to rein in Iran has scored a victory in the German financial sector, after the Deutsche Bundesbank− the country’s central bank− imposed a rule stopping a $400...

August 2, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s central bank imposes rule to stop cash delivery to Tehran

Germany’s powerful central bank – Deutsche Bundesbank – passed a new financial policy that will effectively bar the transfer of nearly $400 million in cash to the Iranian regime...

July 23, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German intelligence contradicts Merkel on Iran’s nuclear drive

A German intelligence report from the city-state of Hamburg said Iran’s regime is continuing to seek weapons of mass destruction, delivering another intelligence agency blow to Chancel...

July 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Report: Germany considers Iranian bid to withdraw 300 million Euros cash

Tehran’s regime plans to use the European-Iranian trade bank in the northern German city of Hamburg – with the approval of the German government – to transfer 300 million euros...

June 19, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Heavy Turnout at Al-Quds Rally in Berlin calls for Israel’s Destruction

Anti-Israel protesters hit the streets on Saturday in stronger numbers than previous years to demonstrate against the existence of the Jewish state at the annual al-Quds Day rally in the heart of...

June 14, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Politicians Want Iran-Regime Center Ousted Over Antisemitism

Politicians in the northern German city of Hamburg rekindled on Monday a call from last year to cancel the city’s contract with an Iranian-regime controlled institution because it participa...

May 1, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German president under fire for hosting antisemitic Iran regime clerics

The prominent NGO Stop the Bomb slammed German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for welcoming a delegation of Iranian regime-affiliated extremists to the Bellevue Palace in Berlin on Monday....

March 16, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran’s Role in the Boycott Israel Campaign

The Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement, better known by the acronym BDS, targeting Israel has largely been viewed as a Palestinian- and Western European-driven campaign with the alleged g...

January 12, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany Permits Iranian Regime Mass Murderer to Flee the Country

Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi – considered a successor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei – fled Germany on Thursday for Iran amid criminal complaints filed against him for ...

January 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany urged to abandon its support of Iran’s mullah regime

While tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in protest, the German government is taking heat for what some are calling its pro-regime policy in Iran, and its decision to allow s...

December 20, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany Arrests Two Palestinian Supporters of the Islamic State

Authorities arrested two Palestinians for alleged criminal activity on behalf of Islamic State, the public prosecutor in Celle, in the German state of Lower Saxony, has confirmed. Mahmou...