TEHRAN \u2013 In a display of moral bankruptcy, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt declared Germany\u2019s \u201c100% support\u201d for the Israeli regime\u2019s military actions against Iran.<\/p>\n
Accompanied by the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar, Dobrindt condemned Iran\u2019s act of self-defense during the regime\u2019s 12-day war against the country as an \u201cattack on civilians\u201d while ignoring Israel\u2019s systematic slaughter of Palestinians and its unprovoked aggression against Tehran.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no justification for attacks on a civilian population,\u201d he proclaimed in Tel Aviv, a statement dripping with hypocrisy given Germany\u2019s enabling of Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza and its support for the recent assault on Iran that killed over 935 Iranians, predominantly civilians.<\/p>\n
The \u2018dirty work\u2019 of imperialism<\/strong><\/p>\n Dobrindt\u2019s visit\u2014the first by a foreign official since the Israeli-imposed war on Iran came to a halt\u2014was not merely symbolic. It crystallized Germany\u2019s role as a patron of Israeli war crimes.<\/p>\n Just days earlier, Chancellor Friedrich Merz admitted the quiet part aloud: Israel is doing the \u201cdirty work for all of us\u201d by attacking Iran.<\/p>\n Merz praised the \u201ccourage\u201d of the regime\u2019s unprovoked aggression, framing it as a service to the West.<\/p>\n This admission lays bare the cynical division of labor within the Western imperialist project. Germany (alongside the United Kingdom and France), which has long portrayed itself as a champion of rationality and international law, has in practice revealed that it plays the same role the old colonial powers did in the 18th and 19th centuries: supporting blatant bullying to secure the supremacy of Western states.<\/p>\n This rhetoric echoes Germany\u2019s historical alignment with colonial violence, from arming Ba’athist Saddam Hussein\u2019s chemical attacks on Iran in the 1980s to shielding Israel from accountability today.<\/p>\n This precise, unwritten division of labor\u2014shaped over decades\u2014assigns the United States and the Israeli regime the primary role in kinetic warfare and bombardments, while Europe manages political pressure, media narratives, and dubious legal sanctions.<\/p>\n Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baqaei, demolished Germany’s moral posturing on this matter: “History reminder: Germany ignited two world wars. Iran sheltered Jews fleeing Hitler.”<\/p>\n In a recent post on X, he urged German officials to “stay silent” rather than justify the Israeli regime’s crimes, noting that those “perpetually on the wrong side of history” forfeit the right to lecture others.<\/p>\n Complicity and \u2018Staatsrason\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n While Dobrindt vowed solidarity with Tel Aviv, his government actively sabotaged efforts to hold Israel accountable.<\/p>\n On June 23, Germany blocked a move by Spain to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement\u2014a pact conditional on human rights compliance\u2014despite the European Commission’s finding that Israel breached its obligations in Gaza and the West Bank.<\/p>\n This decision coincided with the regime’s relentless bombardment of Gaza City, a strike that tragically claimed 80 Palestinian lives in a single day and triggered widespread forced evacuations.<\/p>\n Germany’s “Staatsrason” (reason of state)\u2014invoked by Merz to justify unwavering support for Israel\u2014has become a license for genocide.<\/p>\n When Merz claimed Germany’s duty is to “defend the state of Israel in its existence,” he ignored that the regime’s “existence” relies on erasing Palestinians and wreaking havoc across West Asia.<\/p>\n The Israeli regime has killed over 56,500 Palestinians since October 2023, with broader estimates suggesting the true figure, including those missing and presumed dead, is considerably higher. Yet Germany increased arms exports to the regime to \u20ac161 million in 2024.<\/p>\n Dobrindt\u2019s visit even announced enhanced \u201ccyber-defense cooperation,\u201d further entrenching Germany\u2019s complicity in the very aggression it funds and shields politically.<\/p>\n Nuclear hypocrisy and the ghost of Saddam<\/strong><\/p>\n Dobrindt said Iran\u2019s nuclear program \u201cthreatens\u201d Europe\u2014a claim amplified by Merz, who insisted Iran \u201cmust not have nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n This division of labor led European officials, amid Iran\u2019s exercise of its right to self-defense, to fill global platforms with recycled claims about \u201cIran\u2019s nuclear and missile threat\u201d instead of condemning the aggression.<\/p>\n This ignores three damning realities:<\/p>\n I. \u00a0Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful and, as the most inspected country in IAEA history, has remained under its strict safeguards, while Israel possesses undeclared nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n II. \u00a0Israel brazenly attacked Iran and bombed Iranian nuclear facilities, killing scientists and violating international law\u2014acts that Germany endorsed.<\/p>\n II. \u00a0Germany armed Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons used to massacre Iranians in the 1980s, including the 1987 Sardasht attack.<\/p>\n As Iran\u2019s FM spokesman Baqaei emphasized, Germany bears \u201clegal and moral responsibility\u201d for enabling Saddam\u2019s war crimes.<\/p>\n Yet it now funds Israel\u2019s atrocities while lecturing Iran\u2014a nation that has never launched a war of aggression\u2014and dutifully performing its assigned role in the Western pressure campaign by amplifying baseless threats.<\/p>\n The wrong side of history, again<\/strong><\/p>\n Berlin\u2019s alignment with Tel Aviv reflects a broader pattern of Western imperialism, where it actively upholds the colonial-era division of roles.<\/p>\n Germany’s function as an instrument of Western imperialism pervades various domains.<\/p>\n Culturally, the Berlinale film festival’s censorship of pro-Palestinian voices\u2014going so far as to report staff to police for solidarity with Gaza\u2014reveals Germany’s systematic repression of dissent, a mechanism used to uphold a veneer of rationality even as it facilitates barbarism.<\/p>\n This repression extends far beyond mere cultural censorship, however. Germany, in its perversion of the “Never Again is for everyone” principle, has, decades after the Luxembourg Agreement (1952) and the establishment of diplomatic ties (1965), warped its “special responsibility” for Holocaust victims into a blank check for Israeli crimes.<\/p>\n This insidious reality was further manifested in Dobrindt’s Bat Yam performance, framing Iran’s act of self-defense as terrorism while ignoring Israel’s genocide, which proves Iran’s FM spokesman\u2019s warning: “History does not forgive easily, and the memory of nations is long.”<\/p>\n While many nations of the Global South demand accountability for Israeli atrocities, Dobrindt and Merz, however, cling to a failed policy that stains Germany’s moral standing and reaffirms its commitment to a neocolonial order.<\/p>\n By performing its designated role of political cover, sanctions enforcement, and narrative manipulation, Germany enables the worst excesses of US and Israeli aggression, proving its claims of championing law and rationality are nothing but a modern veneer for an age-old imperialist agenda.<\/p>\n Until Berlin confronts its complicity in Israeli terror, its own bloody history, and its active participation in this cynical Western division of imperial labor, it will remain on the wrong side of history, condemned by the very conscience it fraudulently claims to champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN \u2013 In a display of moral bankruptcy, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt declared Germany\u2019s \u201c100% support\u201d for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,15414,774,837,69261],"class_list":{"0":"post-230199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-holocaust","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-jews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114779880388464849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230199","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=230199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}