FM Spox's Reaction to German Chancellor's Unfounded Accusations Against Iran
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In response to the German Chancellor's accusations against Iran regarding the suspected explosion near the United Arab Emirates nuclear power plant, Esmaeil Baqaei, the Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, wrote in a message in German on the X network:
Mr. Friedrich Merz,
The hypocrisy is glaring. Overt attacks by the United States and the Israeli regime on Iran’s safeguarded nuclear facilities are met not with condemnation, but with excuses and rationalization. Yet when a suspected false-flag operation—whose authorship even the UAE has refused to officially pin on Iran—takes place, the same voices suddenly invoke the solemn language of “international law” and “regional security.”
If strikes on nuclear facilities threaten the people of the region, then that principle must apply equally to all states, not merely when it serves Western political convenience.
This selective sense of justice calls to mind Judge Adam in Heinrich von Kleist’s The Broken Jug: a man whose own indefensible misconduct is precisely what demands judgment, yet who presumes, with pompous self-righteousness, to sit in the seat of justice.