Tehran rejects any role in plot to kill leaders of German Jewish groups

Iran summoned German Ambassador Axel Dittmann after Berlin summoned Iranian Ambassador Majid Nili Ahmadabadi over an alleged plot targeting two pro-Israel Jewish public figures. Tehran called the accusations “baseless political allegations” and said they undermined the standing of the German judiciary. A Hamburg court sentenced a Danish man to eight-and-a-half years in prison and an Afghan accomplice to four-and-a-half years for planning attacks against Josef Schuster and Volker Beck. The court said Iran’s intelligence service had directed the two men.