• Suspected hit teams from Iranian intelligence are targeted across Germany
• It is feared that Iran’s notorious Quds Brigades are operating in the country
• In 1992 Iranian hitmen murdered four Iranian exile politicians in the capital

Mail online, Jan. 16, 2018 – German police and intelligence agents have launched raids nationwide on the homes of Iranians suspected of plotting attacks on Israelis.
Media reports said at least ten wanted suspects are members of Iran’s notorious Quds Brigades responsible for assassinations both inside and outside their homeland against government critics.
Focus Magazine (in German) reported that hit teams from the Iranian secret intelligence service Vevak were also targeted in the raids in Berlin, Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg and North Rhône-Westphalia.

‘We believe the suspects spied on institutions and persons in Germany at the behest of an intelligence unit associated with Iran,’ spokesman Stefan Biehl told The Associated Press.
The government said ‘elaborate observations’ by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the domestic German intelligence agency, led to Tuesday’s swoops.
In September 1992 Iranian hitmen murdered four Iranian exile politicians in the Berlin restaurant Mykonos. In the ensuing investigation it was proved that Iran’s Secret Service had issued the assassination order. 
Germany’s Interior Ministry referred questions about the raids to federal prosecutors.
Last month, the German government protested to the Iranian ambassador following the conviction of an Iranian agent for spying.
Last April, federal prosecutors filed charges against two men suspected of spying on the opposition People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) on behalf of Iranian intelligence, Deutsche Welle reported.
Iran has blamed the group for stirring up protests earlier this month in Iran.
In those protests thousands took to the streets to demand cheaper food prices and less unemployment. At least 21 people were killed.
Iran and its Lebanese Shia ally Hezbollah have been accused of assassinating numerous Kurd and MEK members throughout Europe.
They are alleged to have carried out multiple deadly attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets abroad.
In 1992, four Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders were assassinated in a Berlin restaurant by Iranian agents.
One of the most serious terror-related incidents on German soil in recent years took place during the 1972 summer Olympics, when 11 Israelis were killed after being taken hostage by members of a Palestinian militant group, Black September, on 5 September.
Two died in the athletes’ Olympic village in Munich. The others were killed during a gun battle with West German police at a nearby airfield – as the militants tried to take them out of the country.