Germany’s leader said on Monday that Iran was “humiliating” the United States by dragging US envoys out to Pakistan for futile peace talks, amid a widening rift between Washington and its European allies over the conflict.
Friedrich Merz told students in Marsberg that the Iranians were “obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skilled at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result”.