Overview

• SPD interior policy spokesperson Sebastian Fiedler warned that the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guard could exploit refugee flows to insert agents into Germany.
• Green Party parliamentary manager Filiz Polat has called for an immediate nationwide stop to all deportations to Iran over risks of death or persecution upon return.
• German authorities project that asylum applications from Iran will surge in the coming weeks as military strikes drive more people from their homes.
• The SPD insists that each asylum case undergo individual risk assessments to determine whether deportation would expose applicants to torture or death.
• Turkey permits Iranians to stay visa-free for up to 90 days and observers report increased crossings along its 569-kilometer border with Iran.