German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticised Donald Trump’s handling of the Iran conflict, and the US President has now hit back with a stark warning over Iran’s nuclear capabilities
Donald Trump has issued a stark warning over Iran’s nuclear capabilities to Friedrich Merz after the German Chancellor took aim at the US President.
Germany’s leader claimed on Monday that Iran was “humiliating” the United States following fruitless peace talks that saw American envoys hauled out to Pakistan.
Speaking to students in Marsberg, Merz said 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”.
“An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that this ends as quickly as possible,” he said. Merz and Trump met at the White House in March.
The US President has now hit back on social media, insisting Merz “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” while issuing a pointed warning about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, reports the Mirror.
Trump said on Truth Social: “The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about! If Iran had a Nuclear Weapon, the whole World would be held hostage.
“I am doing something with Iran, right now, that other Nations, or Presidents, should have done long ago. No wonder Germany is doing so poorly, both Economically, and otherwise! President DONALD J. TRUMP.” Merz has permitted the US to utilise the Ramstein air base for coordinating strikes on Iran, but expressed doubt over how Trump would extricate himself from the conflict.
“If I had known that it would continue like this for five or six weeks and get progressively worse, I would have told him even more emphatically,” Merz said. This follows the emergence of a leaked memo suggesting the US was exploring methods of penalising NATO allies who have failed to fully back the war.
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