{"id":243472,"date":"2025-07-06T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243472\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T20:00:13","slug":"dozens-of-iranian-german-citizens-file-complaint-against-merz-for-backing-israeli-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243472\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Iranian-German citizens file complaint against Merz for backing Israeli war on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">Dozens of Iranian-German citizens have signed an online petition and filed a complaint with Germany\u2019s Federal Court against Chancellor Friedrich Merz, following his statements regarding Israeli attacks on Iran, according to DW.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The complaint relates to remarks by Chancellor Merz on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit and during an interview with Germany\u2019s ZDF television channel. In these statements, Merz described Israel\u2019s actions in attacking Iran as a \u201cdirty work for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">He also expressed \u201cgreat respect\u201d for the Israeli military and government responsible for the operation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">In a press release issued by the complainants, Merz\u2019s statements were characterized as \u201cpublic endorsement of a military attack contrary to international law.\u201d They further emphasized that the chancellor\u2019s choice of words led to \u201cinsult and disrespect\u201d toward Iranian-German citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The statement also highlighted the chancellor\u2019s responsibility to uphold the German constitution, noting that \u201chis remarks contribute to shaping a collective image of the enemy that could disrupt public peace and create an atmosphere of exclusion and stigmatization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of Iranian-German citizens have signed an online petition and filed a complaint with Germany\u2019s Federal Court against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1945,1824,774,14249,94591],"class_list":{"0":"post-243472","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-friedrich-merz","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-israeli-regime","14":"tag-us-attack-on-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114808070056827125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243472","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=243472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}