ZITAT
Bundesweite Durchsuchungen
Razzia wegen Spionageverdachts gegen Iran
Stand: 16.01.2018 13:47 Uhr
Seit längerem liegt die Bundesregierung mit dem Iran wegen mutmaßlicher Spionage im Clinch. Nach der Verhaftung eines iranischen Agenten wurde kürzlich der Botschafter einbestellt. Nun gab es bundesweite Razzien.
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat in mehreren Bundesländern Wohnungen und Geschäftsräume von zehn mutmaßlichen iranischen Agenten durchsuchen lassen. Es bestehe der Verdacht "geheimdienstlicher Agententätigkeit", teilte die Behörde in Karlsruhe mit. Niemand sei festgenommen worden. Ausschlaggebend für die Durchsuchungsaktion seien Hinweise des Verfassungsschutzes gewesen.
Die Beschuldigten sollen im Auftrag "einer dem Iran zuzurechnenden geheimdienstlichen Einheit" Institutionen und Personen in Deutschland ausgespäht haben. Mehr Details wurden nicht genannt.
Vorausgegangen war die Verurteilung eines iranischen Spions durch das Berliner Kammergericht. Die Richter sahen es als erwiesen an, dass der aus Pakistan stammende Agent im Auftrag des Irans ab Juli 2015 das Privatleben Robbes ausspioniert hat. Der Mann war wegen geheimdienstlicher Agententätigkeit zu vier Jahren und drei Monaten Haft verurteilt worden.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/iranische-agenten-101.html
Razzia wegen Spionageverdachts gegen Iran
Stand: 16.01.2018 13:47 Uhr
Seit längerem liegt die Bundesregierung mit dem Iran wegen mutmaßlicher Spionage im Clinch. Nach der Verhaftung eines iranischen Agenten wurde kürzlich der Botschafter einbestellt. Nun gab es bundesweite Razzien.
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat in mehreren Bundesländern Wohnungen und Geschäftsräume von zehn mutmaßlichen iranischen Agenten durchsuchen lassen. Es bestehe der Verdacht "geheimdienstlicher Agententätigkeit", teilte die Behörde in Karlsruhe mit. Niemand sei festgenommen worden. Ausschlaggebend für die Durchsuchungsaktion seien Hinweise des Verfassungsschutzes gewesen.
Die Beschuldigten sollen im Auftrag "einer dem Iran zuzurechnenden geheimdienstlichen Einheit" Institutionen und Personen in Deutschland ausgespäht haben. Mehr Details wurden nicht genannt.
Vorausgegangen war die Verurteilung eines iranischen Spions durch das Berliner Kammergericht. Die Richter sahen es als erwiesen an, dass der aus Pakistan stammende Agent im Auftrag des Irans ab Juli 2015 das Privatleben Robbes ausspioniert hat. Der Mann war wegen geheimdienstlicher Agententätigkeit zu vier Jahren und drei Monaten Haft verurteilt worden.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/iranische-agenten-101.html
ZITAT
Rouhani’s budget transparency stokes Iran unrest
Anger at spending on Islamic institutions as soaring living costs hit poor
14 HOURS AGO 10
When President Hassan Rouhani unveiled this year’s budget his intention was to shine a spotlight on state funding for institutions under the influence of his hardline opponents. Instead, his attempt at transparency inadvertently stoked public anger that helped trigger the biggest anti-regime protests in almost a decade.
As disgruntlement festered over rising living costs and complaints that Mr Rouhani had failed to back his promises of reform grew louder, the budget exposed the large amounts of taxpayers’ cash allocated to religious institutions and other entities affiliated to factions within the Islamic regime.
One example picked up on by Iranians was the 31.1trn rials ($853m) proposed for about a dozen institutions that promote Islam and the ideological foundations of the Islamic regime. This was a nominal increase of 9 per cent on the previous year and almost the equivalent to the amounts earmarked for the foreign and culture ministries.
At the same time, the December budget, which has to be approved by parliament by March, proposed increasing fuel prices by as much as 50 per cent and amending the welfare system in a move that could end monthly state payments for more than 30m people.
Iranians typically ignore what is a complicated budget process in an opaque financial system. But this time they paid attention as Iranians used social media to post extracts of the government’s spending plans to expose perceived injustices. And it lit a fuse after years of pent up frustration with a theocratic regime among a young, urbanised population fed up with corruption, high unemployment and social restrictions.
“We have to shed tears for ourselves, our families and our country when the budget for the Food and Drug Administration [2trn rials] is less than the budget for the insurance of seminary scholars and unemployed clerics [2.9trn rials],” read one post on Telegram, the messaging app.
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Anger at spending on Islamic institutions as soaring living costs hit poor
14 HOURS AGO 10
When President Hassan Rouhani unveiled this year’s budget his intention was to shine a spotlight on state funding for institutions under the influence of his hardline opponents. Instead, his attempt at transparency inadvertently stoked public anger that helped trigger the biggest anti-regime protests in almost a decade.
As disgruntlement festered over rising living costs and complaints that Mr Rouhani had failed to back his promises of reform grew louder, the budget exposed the large amounts of taxpayers’ cash allocated to religious institutions and other entities affiliated to factions within the Islamic regime.
One example picked up on by Iranians was the 31.1trn rials ($853m) proposed for about a dozen institutions that promote Islam and the ideological foundations of the Islamic regime. This was a nominal increase of 9 per cent on the previous year and almost the equivalent to the amounts earmarked for the foreign and culture ministries.
At the same time, the December budget, which has to be approved by parliament by March, proposed increasing fuel prices by as much as 50 per cent and amending the welfare system in a move that could end monthly state payments for more than 30m people.
Iranians typically ignore what is a complicated budget process in an opaque financial system. But this time they paid attention as Iranians used social media to post extracts of the government’s spending plans to expose perceived injustices. And it lit a fuse after years of pent up frustration with a theocratic regime among a young, urbanised population fed up with corruption, high unemployment and social restrictions.
“We have to shed tears for ourselves, our families and our country when the budget for the Food and Drug Administration [2trn rials] is less than the budget for the insurance of seminary scholars and unemployed clerics [2.9trn rials],” read one post on Telegram, the messaging app.
https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/...n&width=700
