German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that “a dangerous escalation” is taking place in the US-Israeli war against Iran and that “there is clearly no common plan” to end the war “quickly and convincingly”, reports Reuters and AFP, quoted by Agerpres.
“We are extremely concerned that there is clearly no common plan to end this war quickly and convincingly,” Merz told a news conference in Berlin.
“Many of the goals set by the Americans and the Israelis are ours as well, but every day of war raises more questions,” Merz emphasized in Berlin, where he received Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis.
“We have no interest in an endless war. We have no interest in a challenge to the territorial integrity or economic viability” of Iran, he added, expressing concern about “a possible scenario like what we saw in Libya, in Iraq or other states in the region.”
The German leader also said that he “shares the hope of the American president” Donald Trump that “this war will end quickly”, along with the hope of “a relatively quick return to normality in the oil and energy markets”.
Trump made contradictory statements on Monday about the war in Iran, suggesting that it will end “soon” but saying at the same time that the offensive will continue.
He told CBS that this conflict is “way ahead” of the four-to-five-week timetable he had previously mentioned.
However, he told Republican elected officials that the United States “will not stop until the enemy is completely and utterly defeated.”
