Berlin (dpa) \u2013 After the Israeli-American strikes against Iran, Germany, France and the United Kingdom criticised retaliatory attacks by the government in Tehran. \u201cWe strongly condemn the Iranian attacks on countries in the region. Iran must cease its arbitrary military strikes,\u201d said a joint statement released in Berlin by Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They continued: \u201cWe call for a resumption of negotiations and urge the Iranian leadership to seek a negotiated solution.\u201d Ultimately, the Iranian people had to be allowed to shape their own future, the statement continued, adding that France, Germany and the United Kingdom had repeatedly called on Iran to end its nuclear programme, refrain from destabilising activities and stop violence against its own population.<\/p>\n
Israel and the United States launched a new war against Iran with large-scale military strikes in which Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was also killed. The Islamic Republic responded with counterattacks on Israel and US military bases in several Gulf states.<\/p>\n
Merz, Macron and Starmer said: \u201cWe were not involved in the military strikes but remain in close contact with our international partners, including the United States, Israel and partners in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berlin (dpa) \u2013 After the Israeli-American strikes against Iran, Germany, France and the United Kingdom criticised retaliatory attacks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}