Iran summons German envoy over Islamic centre closure 

TEHRAN, July 24: Tehran said it summoned the German ambassador on Wednesday after the closure of an Islamic centre in Hamburg over alleged support for Lebanon's Hezbollah and links to Iran.

"Following the action of the German police which closed a number of Islamic centres, the German ambassador was summoned today to the ministry of foreign affairs," the ministry said in a statement on social media platform X.

Germany's interior ministry said it had "banned the Hamburg Islamic Centre and its affiliated organisations throughout Germany to date, as it is an Islamist extremist organisation pursuing anti-constitutional objectives".
It accused the centre of presenting itself as a purely religious organisation with no political agenda, but said its probe had found the contrary to be true.    —AFP