'Iranian spies' targeted in German police searches 16 January 2018 Share this with Facebook   Share this with Twitter   Share this with Messenger   Share this with Email   Share Image copyright AFP Image caption German authorities did not reveal where exactly the raids took place German special police teams have searched flats linked to 10 suspected Iranian state spies. The searches were triggered by German counter-intelligence. The Iranians, still at large, are suspected of spying on Israeli and/or Jewish targets. Germany's Focus news said the raids took place in Berlin, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg. In 1997 a Berlin verdict linked top Iranian politicians to the killing of four Iranian Kurdish dissidents. German investigators concluded that the assassination at Berlin's Mykonos restaurant in 1992 was the work of Iranian secret service agents. Western intelligence officials accuse Iran's secretive Qu...