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Germany Summons Iran Envoy to Warn Against Spying on Israel
(Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty) Germany has summoned Iran's ambassador in Berlin to warn Tehran against spying on individuals and groups in Germany with close ties to Israel, saying such acts violate German law. Mustufa Haidar Syed-Naqfi was convicted in March of gathering intelligence on Reinhold Robbe, the former head of the German-Israel Friendship Society and an Israeli-French economics professor in Paris, for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. After the conviction, Robbe accused Tehran of plotting to have him murdered and demanded that Berlin call Iran to account. Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported that the Iranian ambassador was warned that spying on Israel would "have negative consequences on bilateral relations between Germany and Iran." Germany's domestic intelligence service highlighted Iran's spying activities in its annual report in July, saying that Tehran was focused heavily on Israeli or pro-Jewish targets.