Wahied Wahdat-Hagh

June 10, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Report: Berlin a Hub of Hezbollah Activity

Hezbollah has 950 members in Germany, including 250 in the capital, a reported released by Berlin’s domestic intelligence agency released last week showed. A Hezbollah-contro...

April 22, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post |

Iran Agent Monitoring Chabad Arrested in Bulgaria

Bulgarian police officers last summer arrested a Canadian citizen linked to the Iranian government who engaged in surveillance of the local Chabad center in the capital of Sofia, a well-placed an...

April 15, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post |

German Event with Iran Envoy ‘Legitimizes Evil’

A German government ministry and an evangelical church academy provoked outrage in the US and Germany by inviting the Iranian ambassador – allegedly involved in the massacre of Kurds &ndash...

April 1, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post |

‘Iranian Militia Monitored Bulgarian Synagogue’

US think tank: Qods Forces monitored synagogue in Sofia suggesting it's a possible target for terror attack.

March 18, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

UN Report Reveals Iranian Violence Against Bahais

Two new studies have disclosed state-sponsored violence directed at the Bahai religious minority in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ahmed Shaheed, UN special rapporteur on human righ...

February 11, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Green Party Head High-Fives Iran’s Envoy

BERLIN – Claudia Roth, chairwoman of the large Green Party in Germany, is facing a storm of criticism from media outlets, Iranian dissidents and pro-Israel advocates because she greeted Ira...

January 15, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austrian Capital ‘Filled with Iranian Spies’

The Austrian capital is a main European hub for Tehran’s spy network, the US-based Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress concluded in December in a comprehensive report on Ir...

January 14, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

American Pastor Jailed in Iran Faces Torture

The family of American-Iranian pastor Saeed Abedini released a letter from him on Thursday stating that Iranian authorities have threatened him with death because of his belief in Christianity....

November 5, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post |

Analysis: German-Iranian Trade Booming

Myth of impossibility of unilateral sanctions persists.

September 24, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Hamburg Mosque May Have Violated Anti-Hate Contract

The Imam Ali Mosque in Hamburg, widely considered by experts in Germany and abroad the long arm of Iran’s regime in the Federal Republic, appears to have violated the spirit – and per...

August 9, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Outrage Over ‘Anti-Semitic’ German-Iranian Program

The University of Potsdam, located near Berlin, triggered sharp criticism from German academics this week because of its joint academic program with the University of Religions and Denominations,...

June 29, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal Pink News |

German Court Tells Lesbian Asylum Seeker to Hide Identity in Iran

A German court rejected the asylum application of Samira Ghorbani Danesh, an Iranian lesbian refugee who fled Iran in 2009, with the justification that she can hide her homosexuality in Iran and...

April 9, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Nobel Laureate Günter Grass Loves Iran’s Clerical Regime

While Germany’s media are reporting non-stop on the country’s most famous contemporary writer—the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Literature Günter Grass—because of his &ldquo...

April 3, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi The Commentator |

Iran’s March for ‘Martyrs’ in Jerusalem

Co-authored by Wahied Wahdat-Hagh Every year since 1976, on March 30, Israeli Arabs commemorate clashes with Israeli police over Israel’s land policy that left six de...

January 24, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The United Kingdom Bans Iran’s Media Outlet

The Guardian reported on Friday that Press TV, the English-language news outlet op...

October 31, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post |

Crippling Iran’s Central Bank

The Obama administration would have to twist Europe’s economic arms to join in the sanctions against CBI.

October 14, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal, Mark Dubowitz The Huffington Post

Iran’s War on Religious Freedom

The Iranian regime is in the news again over an alleged terrorist plot on American soil. Back in Iran, the regime's brutality to its own people continues. As Western governments consider how...

September 24, 2010 | Benjamin Weinthal Jerusalem Post |

Stop the Bomb Protests Iranian ‘Terror Bank’

BERLIN – The European-based Stop the Bomb coalition demonstrated in front of the European-Iranian Trade Bank headquarters in Hamburg on Thursday and called for the closure of EIH because it...