A German intelligence agency said that Iran has repeatedly attempted to obtain technology to develop weapons of mass destruction while working on its missile program.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia (BfV), a regional intelligence agency, said in its annual report for 2017: “In North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as nationwide, there has been increased activities of the so-called Quds” the intelligence agency, which is a special unit of the Iran Revolutionary Guard and has “its own intelligence department, security services, and counterintelligence.”
