According to a report by Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, German police arrested a suspected operative for the Quds Force, an arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the state of Hesse in February 2019. German authorities are also continuing an investigation launched in 2017 against 10 suspected agents of the Quds Force. According to the report, Iranian intelligence agencies operating in Germany and other Western countries focus on gathering military, science, and business information, as well as information about Iranian dissidents.