Ramin Yektaparast, the main suspect in organizing an attack on a Jewish cultural center in Essen

“Those attacks are part of what Germany’s security services see as an uptick in Iranian regime activity aimed at Jewish targets as well as the Iranian diaspora in Germany.” That would be in line with a reported increase in Iranian assassination and kidnapping threats in Europe and the United States, underlined the report. “Analysts say that while facing protests at home, Iran is increasingly going after what it sees as foreign threats to the regime and is using criminal gangs to add a cloak of deniability.”