Two men sentenced in Germany for planning to attack pro-Israel figures on behalf of Iran

A German court sentenced a Danish man and an Afghan man for plotting to assassinate pro-Israel figures and spying for Iran's Revolutionary Guard. The first was sentenced to eight and a half years, the second to four and a half years. The first defendant received orders from Iran's Quds Force since spring 2025. Volker Beck demanded the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador.

A German court in Hamburg on Thursday sentenced a Danish man and an Afghan man for plotting to assassinate pro-Israel public figures and spying on Jews for Iranian intelligence. The Danish citizen, identified as Ali S., was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for planning attacks on targets including the head of the German-Israeli Society, Volker Beck, and the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster. His Afghan accomplice, Tawab M., was sentenced to four and a half years. Prosecutors said he agreed to recruit a third man and provide a weapon to carry out the attack on Beck. The first defendant received his orders from the Quds Force, the external operations branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, since spring 2025. The defendants were placed in pretrial detention in Germany after their arrest last year in Denmark. After the charges were announced in May, Beck called on Berlin to expel the Iranian ambassador and consular officials. The Iranian embassy in Berlin rejected the accusations, calling them "baseless claims."