German Chancellor Hammered for Anti-Iran Stances

Asked about the German interior minister’s recent visit to the occupied Palestinian territories and his plans to boost ties with the Zionist regime, Esmaeil Baqaei said at a presser on Monday that the stances taken by Germany and France on the Israeli regime’s war of aggression against Iran were unacceptable.

He said the comments made by the German officials have turned the European country into a “historic accomplice” in the Israeli atrocities, as they have tried to portray a brazen act of aggression as a dirty work.

Baqaei was referring to the comments by Merz who said that Israel was doing the “dirty work” for everyone by striking Iran.

“Everybody knows what that word means. I didn’t think that the German chancellor might use the terms that were employed to justify Hitler’s actions. They (German officials) must explain why they are using such language which is sort of rubbing salt in the wound of Iranians,” the spokesman said.

Condemning Germany’s unacceptable stances on the Israeli war against Iran, Baqaei said it indicates that certain European countries have totally jeopardized the credibility of the European Union.

While the Zionist regime waged a war of aggression against Iran on June 13 and struck Iran’s military, nuclear and residential areas for 12 days, the US stepped in and conducted military attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran’s Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan on June 22.

The Iranian military forces conducted powerful counterattacks immediately after the aggression. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force carried out 22 waves of retaliatory missile strikes against the Zionist regime as part of Operation True Promise III that inflicted heavy losses on cities across the occupied territories.

Also, in response to the US attacks, Iranian armed forces launched a wave of missiles at al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.

A ceasefire that came into force on June 24 brought the fighting to a halt.