BERLIN: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday that if the US had consulted Berlin about the US-Israel war against Iran, “we would have advised against taking this course of action.”
“We share with Israel and the United States the objective that Iran should no longer pose a threat in the future,” Merz told parliament.
“For years and decades, the Iranian regime has broken rule after rule, spread terror across the world, and destabilized the neighborhood. This regime bears responsibility for the current crisis in the region,” he said.
“At the same time, however, we have also made it clear that we still have many questions regarding this war,” Merz said, adding that the US and Israel had shown “no convincing plan as to how this operation could succeed.”
Washington had “not consulted” Germany about the war, Merz noted.
