Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has criticized German Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s position against Iran as naive and distasteful, expressing hope for a more mature and honorable political leadership in Germany.<\/p>\n
Tehran – IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n In a post on his X account on Thursday, Araghchi reacted to the recent varied claims made by Merz, saying, \u201cGermany was once the engine of Europe\u2019s progress; now it has turned into an engine of regression.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLast September in New York, at Merz\u2019s insistence, the E3 put an end to their role in nuclear negotiations by pursuing the return of UN sanctions on Iran. Now, Merz is begging to be allowed back into the same negotiations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The top Iranian diplomat noted, \u201cWe Iranians have unfortunately been faced with several other examples of Merz\u2019s political naivety and distasteful character. When Israel killed more than 1,000 Iranians in June 2025, he expressed exuberance. Merz has also publicly daydreamed about Iran supposedly being weeks away from collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n He said, \u201cGermans are a great people who have contributed to humankind with their hard work and ingenuity. Iran has always welcomed strong relations with Germany. It is therefore doubly regrettable that an individual such as Mr. Merz now represents Germany on the world stage.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe hope that more mature and honourable political leadership will return to Germany,\u201d Araghchi added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has criticized German Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s position against Iran as naive and distasteful, expressing hope for a more mature and honorable political leadership in Germany. Tehran – IranView24 In a post on his X account on Thursday, Araghchi reacted to the recent varied claims made by Merz, saying, \u201cGermany was once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,39,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-foreign-policy","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}