Hawzah News Agency- German media reported, five weeks after the closure of the Hamburg Islamic Center, a spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security of the state of Hamburg announced that the decision to expel Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh, the 57-year-old head of the center, from Germany this week has been approved.

According to this ruling, Mofatteh has been asked to leave Germany within 14 days, which according to the authorities will be September 11 at the latest.

In addition, Hojjat al-Islam Mofatteh is not allowed to re-enter Germany, and if he tries to do so, he will be imprisoned for up to three years.

Hujjat al-Islam Mofatteh served as the director of the Islamic Center of Hamburg (IZH) since the summer of 2018.

In line with the Islamophobic measures that Western countries have taken against Muslims; Federal Interior Minister Nancy Pfizer (SPD) banned the Hamburg Islamic Center in July.

The German police confiscated the assets and facilities of this center and five affiliated organizations.

The Islamic Centre Hamburg (German: Islamisches Zentrum Hamburg), also known as the Blue Mosque (German: Blaue Moschee), was the oldest mosque in Hamburg, Germany, being established in the late 1950s by a group of Iranian emigrants and business people and built in the early 1960s.