German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has delivered one of the most pointed European rebukes of Donald Trump's Iran campaign to date, declaring that the United States entered the conflict without a strategy and is now paying the price.
Speaking to students in the German town of Marsberg on Monday, Merz said the situation had grown worse than he had anticipated since the US and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran on 28 February. 'The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skilful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result,' he said. The German chancellor did not mince words about what he sees as a humiliation playing out in real time. 'A whole nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards,' Merz told the audience.
