Who is Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh: The German government has ordered Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh, head of the Hamburg Islamic Center (IZH), to leave Germany. The government has banned the center and its affiliates for promoting radical Islamic goals. The Hamburg Interior Department has issued a deportation notice to 57-year-old Mofatteh. In which he has been ordered to leave the country within two weeks.
Along with this, the German Interior Ministry says that if Mohammad Hadi Mofateh does not follow the order, he will be forcibly expelled from Germany at his own expense by September 11. Apart from this, if he violates the order, he has also been banned from re-entering or staying in Germany. If he does not do so, he can be sentenced to up to three years in prison.
A Shia organization was banned in Germany last month
In fact, Shia cleric Mohammad Hadi Mofateh was the official deputy of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the head of the Islamic Center in Germany. Where last month an Islamic organization active in the German city of Hamburg was banned. This group is accused of promoting the ideology of the Iranian government and supporting Lebanon’s extremist group Hezbollah.
Know who is Mohammed Hadi Mofatteh?
Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh was born in Iran in 1966. He received his primary education from Tehran, after which he obtained a diploma in mathematics in 1984. Hadi Mofatteh’s father was killed by a terrorist group. His father was a professor and Islamic scholar at Tehran University. His father was against any kind of extremism in religion.
Hadi Mofatteh has been a faculty member at Qom University since 2008 and holds the rank of associate professor. Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh has been serving as the 10th imam and director of the Islamic Center Hamburg since 2018.
