Agence France Presse, BERLIN - The main exiled Iranian opposition group claimed Wednesday that Germany was putting its members in danger by exchanging information with Iranian authorities for this summer's World Cup finals.

The German branch of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) claimed that August Hanning, a senior official in the German interior ministry, agreed on a recent visit to Tehran to provide "a continuous exchange of information" between Iran and Germany.

"We greatly regret this," Javad Dabiran, a member of the NCRI, said at a news conference. "We warn against any cooperation with the Iranian regime."

Iran has qualified for the June 9-July 9 World Cup finals in Germany.

The NCRI claims that the agreement could lead to German authorities providing information to their Iranian counterparts about Iranian dissidents living in Germany, leaving them vulnerable to reprisals.

The NCRI is the political wing of the People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), which is listed as a terrorist organisation by the European Union and the United States.