{"id":192056,"date":"2025-06-17T15:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192056\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T15:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:59:09","slug":"germanys-merz-says-us-weighing-participation-in-iran-strikes-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192056\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Merz says US weighing participation in Iran strikes \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/trump-wants-real-end-to-iran-israel-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been lobbying U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> to join his country\u2019s military campaign and help attack Iran\u2019s nuclear sites. Military experts say Israel is unable to target the deep underground Fordow facility without U.S. military help.<\/p>\n<p>After cutting short his stay at the G7 summit in Canada, Trump said aboard Air Force One that he was looking for a \u201ccomplete give-up\u201d and \u201ca real end\u201d to the conflict with Iran. \u201cI\u2019m not too much in a mood to negotiate,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s ultimate intentions remain unclear, and other European leaders have suggested the U.S. in not contemplating direct military participation. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/keir-starmer-donald-trump-not-saying-he-going-bomb-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told journalists at the G7 summit<\/a> that \u201cthere is nothing the president said that suggests he\u2019s about to get involved in this conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/video256239706\/jetzt-im-livestream-israel-schliesst-weltweit-alle-botschaften-welt-sondersendung-zur-eskalation-mit-dem-iran.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuesday television interview with Welt<\/a>, a sister publication of POLITICO in the Axel Springer Group, Merz said the regime in Iran had been badly damaged by Israel\u2019s strikes. \u201cI can hardly imagine that the mullah\u2019s regime will return to its old functions, especially as large parts of the military leadership are no longer alive,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it won\u2019t go back to the way it was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been lobbying U.S. President Donald Trump to join his country\u2019s military campaign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[6505,943,6178,12495,32,2000,299,36,1945,1824,774,837,11582,2597,809,8041,49,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-192056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-development","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-friedrich-merz","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-lobbying","21":"tag-military","22":"tag-negotiations","23":"tag-nuclear-weapons","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114699538741414095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}