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Dozens of officers began raiding the Blue Mosque in Hamburg early on Wednesday morning, according to a dpa reporter on the ground. The mosque, located in a central upmarket area on the shore of the northern German city’s Outer Alster Lake, is run by the Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH) which Germany’s domestic intelligence service considers to be controlled by Iran. The agency has also classified the IZH as extremist. Back in April, a spokesman for the federal Interior Ministry said that in investigation into the IZH into association law was being conducted “without any set expectations regarding …

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