Author: Joshua Wirtz

Published: 22 January 2024  Author: Joshua Wirtz

As the new year commences, we reflect on the past one. Continuing our tradition of sharing the past year’s statistics with our readers, we are pleased to do the same this year:

• Posts published: 31
• Visitors: 99,034 (up 33,362 from last year)
• Visits: 2,430,460 (up 1,471,993 from last year)
• Subscribers to our newsletter: 265
• Average number of pageviews for all posts in 2023: 317
• Average number of pageviews for new posts published in 2023: 642
• Average number of pageviews for all posts since 2017: 950

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Published: 11 January 2023 Author: Joshua Wirtz

As a new year is upon us, it is time to take our customary glance back at the past year of GPIL by sharing the statistics for 2022: (more…)

Published 28 April 2022  Authors: Stefan Talmon and Joshua Wirtz 

On the evening of 19 November 2021, unknown perpetrators hurled an incendiary device at the entrance of Iran’s consulate in the northern German city of Hamburg, sparking a fire that was quickly doused. The attack resulted in some damage to the building, but no casualties were reported. Upon being called to the scene by passers-by, the police immediately launched a major manhunt; underground trains were stopped and searched. Two persons were briefly detained but later released when it turned out that they had nothing to do with the attack. (more…)