GERMANY ARREST ANOTHER IRANIAN SPY
BONN 26 July (IPS) German Justice announced Thursday the arrest of a 41 year-old Iranian on charges of spying for the Iranian secret services.
Mr. Mohammad Bahmanali of Karlsruhe was arrested Tuesday in Offenbach and jailed, the Prosecutor announced, adding that the suspect was engaged in gathering information on Iranian dissidents, the emigrants and groups opposed to the Islamic Republic for the Iranian Information Ministry.
The Prosecutor said Mr. Bahmanali was working for the Intelligence Ministry of Iran.
In a communiqué, the Prosecutor said Mr. Bahmanali had been arrested before in 1999 for spying on Iranians living in Germany and France and was jailed for five months.
"Mr. Bahmanali resumed his espionage activities after his release from prison", the statement added.
In 1999, German police had arrested another Iranian, Mr. Hamid Khorsandi, on exactly the same charges.
Until the "Mykonos" verdict that ruled all Iranian clerical leadership as being directly involved in the assassination of Iranian dissidents, Germany used to be Islamic Iran’s main center for terrorist and espionage operations across Europe.
Hundreds of Iranian dissidents have been murdered by Iranian agents both inside and outside, many of them in Western Europe. ENDS SPY ARRESTED 26701