Overview

• Washington’s overnight strikes targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities, prompting Berlin authorities to heighten vigilance.
• A pro-Iran demonstration set for June 22 in Berlin’s government district was deregistered by police overnight.
• On June 21, around 1,300 people demonstrated outside Berlin’s Rotes Rathaus to demand that Western governments sever ties with Tehran, though organizers claimed several thousand participants.
• The Nationaler Widerstandsrat Iran organized the Saturday rally, mobilizing demonstrators from across Germany on about 60 buses.
• The exile group, formed in 1981 from the People’s Mujahedin and banned in Iran, advocates for a regime change in Tehran.