Iran's Ambassador Summoned to Germany's Foreign Office in Berlin

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has ordered the Iranian ambassador in Berlin to be summoned to the German Foreign Office. The minister shared this information with reporters during a press conference dedicated to the outcomes of discussions with the Cypriot Foreign Minister, as reported by RIA Novosti.

“Today I have again ordered the Iranian ambassador to be summoned to the Foreign Office, to make it clear once again that their brutal repression, the oppression and terror against their own people, and the last two executions will not go unanswered,” Baerbock stated.

Earlier, ambassadors from Iran were summoned to the foreign offices of other European countries, particularly in the Netherlands and Denmark.

Today, the Fars news agency reported that an Iranian court has issued a preliminary death sentence for defendants involved in a terrorist attack in Isfahan, during which three law enforcement officers were killed.

Since mid-September, mass unrest and protests have occurred in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. Citizens blame the authorities for her death. The protests have taken on a radical and extremist character, with participants attacking clerics, mosque leaders, and security forces, including police and members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as well as members of a major military organization, Basij.

In late October and early November, two more terrorist attacks occurred in Iran—one in Shiraz city and the other in a small town in Khuzestan province in the south of the country. The attackers fired at a group of civilians and law enforcement officers.

The Iranian authorities blame the Western countries for supporting the protesters, accusing them of spreading anti-Iranian messages in their media and calling on the population to overthrow the regime.