After Tehran announced that the armies of the European Union would be regarded as a terrorist organization, Konstantin von Notz, a Green Party member and deputy chair of the parliamentary control committee, cautioned against underestimating the foreign‑intelligence operations of the Mullah regime. “Especially now that German Bundeswehr sites are already under the focus of Russian intelligence activities, we must take Iran’s unambiguous threats about the endangerment of facilities and people seriously” he told the “Tagesspiegel” in its Monday edition.
The German Defence Ministry said it would not take a possible danger from the active Iranian intelligence in Germany lightly. “We are monitoring the situation” a ministry spokesperson told the newspaper following Tehran’s announcement, “and are in even more intensive contact with the operational command than before”. The ministry maintains direct contact with each Bundeswehr base.
From the coalition government’s perspective, security services are already alert. Protecting soldiers and German facilities “has the highest priority” said Adis Ahmetovic, the SPD parliamentary faction’s foreign‑policy spokesman, to “Tagesspiegel”. “We are assessing the situation in close coordination with our partners” he added.
CDU politician Jürgen Hardt, a colleague from the union faction, echoes this view: “Regardless of this classification, European security authorities are highly attentive to Iranian terrorism”. He called Tehran’s announcement “expected” and “irrelevant”. Ahmetovic also stressed that, unlike the prior EU listing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran’s designation has no legal basis and does not alter the legitimacy of Bundeswehr missions abroad.