Omid Nouripour, a member of the Green Party and Vice‑President of the German Bundestag, has pleaded that the German government act swiftly to ban the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from operating in Germany. He said the European Union has finally succeeded in putting the IRGC-the backbone of state repression-on the terror list, and that Germany must now follow up with an operational prohibition. “I am utterly unclear as to what the federal interior minister is waiting for” he added.
Nouripour also urged the federal public prosecutor’s office to investigate allegations of crimes against humanity committed in Iran over the past weeks. “Doing so would demonstrate to the slaughterers that they cannot simply get away with it” he remarked.
He cautioned that expelling the Iranian ambassador from Germany would have adverse consequences. “If the ambassador were forced out, it would become foreseeable that the German embassy in Tehran would close” he explained. “That would affect people who need visas to leave the country. Moreover, it would mean that the German government would lose on‑the‑ground information if the internet is completely shut down”.
Instead, Nouripour suggested that a more effective measure would be to freeze the private assets of regime affiliates within Germany, thereby hitting them directly.