Some 80,000 people joined a Berlin rally Saturday in solidarity with women-led protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a police spokesman told AFP.
German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, is visiting Tehran to try and convince his Iranian counterpart and career diplomat Javad Zarif to stay in 2015 nuclear deal after discoveries of increasing tensions within the country by the UN atomic watchdog.
Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
came under fire over a congratulatory telegram sent to Iran on the 40th
anniversary of the Islamic revolution, with a Jewish community leader on
Monday joining a chorus of criticism.
A German court said Monday it gave the green light for an Iranian diplomat linked to an alleged bomb plot against an Iranian opposition rally to be handed over to Belgium.
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) has said that Donald Trump’s decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran is a “mistake”, and warned that isolation of the country could lead to “chaos”.
President Trump's decision to pull the US out of the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran and reimpose a raft of sanctions will hit a number of German and European businesses working in Iran.
German prosecutors said Wednesday a court had remanded in custody an alleged Iranian spy accused of plotting to bomb an Iranian opposition rally in Paris on June 30th.
An Iranian diplomat based in Vienna was arrested in Bavaria on Sunday evening on suspicion of carrying explosives and aiding a planned terror attack in Paris.
Germany's biggest lenders have shied away from business with Iran after past penalties for breaching US
sanctions, but smaller banks have leapt on opportunities afforded by the nuclear deal rejected by Donald Trump.
Germany is leading the charge to rescue the Iran deal and the economic inroads German and European companies have made into the restricted economy since 2016.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday, as Moscow and Europe make rare joint efforts to save the Iran nuclear
deal.
The latest escalation of hostilities in the Middle East involving Iran and Israel is a matter of "war and peace" for the region, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Thursday.
Germany, France and Britain will "do everything" to ensure that Iran remains in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal,
Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Wednesday, a day after the US pulled out of the accord.
US President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal has brought liberal and conservative German media together in mutual outrage. Politicians across the aisle have been equally vocal in their condemnation.
German businesses should immediately halt their operations in Iran following President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of
the Iran nuclear deal, the US ambassador to Germany said on Tuesday.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier voiced concern on Sunday over a "substantial change" in trans-Atlantic ties, amid
European tensions with US President Donald Trump over trade, defence and the Iran nuclear deal.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits US President Donald Trump on Friday for a last-ditch European effort to prevent a transatlantic trade war and save the Iran nuclear deal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tehran on Sunday over aggressions by Iran and its "proxies" in Syria, saying he would not allow them to "put a noose around our neck".
Iranian regime opponents held small-scale demonstrations Saturday in France and Germany to show support for opposition groups who have held rallies inside their country in recent days.
Germany would lend its weight to a diplomatic push to end North Korean nuclear weapons and missile development along the lines of a past deal with Iran, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday.
German car giant Volkswagen said Tuesday it was returning to the Iranian market for the first time in 17 years due to the lifting of economic sanctions.
