Overview
- Interior Minister René Wilke announced Brandenburg’s halt, with exceptions for security threats and serious offenders.
- Berlin declined a blanket stop, keeping removals subject to top-level approval and assessing each case individually.
- Brandenburg lists 219 Iranian nationals as obliged to leave, yet the state has carried out no deportations to Iran since 2020.
- At least 17 people were deported to Iran from Germany last year, while such returns remain rare and complicated due to limited cooperation from Iranian authorities.
- Human-rights groups describe fatalities, arbitrary arrests and severe internet restrictions in Iran, prompting ongoing monitoring by German authorities.