Very recommendable! Just the pervasive, genocidal antisemitism of Iranian rulers should make any German politician and businessman hesitant! Again Germans are seen as merchants of death!
Yes, the really strange detente between Germany and Iran since the so called Iranian Revolution of 1979 is a huge stain on and scandal of German foreign policy! The infamous, terrible Iran nuclear deal (a.k.a. Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) signed by oh so stupid Frank-Walter Steinmeier (then German foreign minister, now German president) is another, more recent example!
"Germany pioneered the “critical dialogue” in 1992 in order to tie Iranian respect for human rights to increased trade. The Islamic Republic soon put Germany to the test, murdering four Iranian Kurdish dissidents in the heart of Berlin. Rather than suspend ties, Bernd Schmidbauer, Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s top intelligence adviser, continued to engage Iranian Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahian, the man who ordered the hit, after the assassination. ... Claudia Roth, chairman of the German Green Party, high-fived the Iranian ambassador, a man directly implicated in the slaughter of Kurds while serving as governor in Iran’s Kurdistan province ... so too have German officials been consistently willing to excuse Iranian nuclear cheating. Germany sought to give Iran a free pass or a second chance after almost every International Atomic Energy Agency finding suggesting Iranian efforts to conceal nuclear work or to evade Iran’s safeguards agreement. ... On the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sent a congratulatory telegram to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. While they might have excused that as diplomatic protocol, the fact that Foreign Ministry State Minister Niels Annen subsequently attended the celebrations went well beyond what his European peers felt comfortable."
The US should sanction Germans trading with Iran
Showing posts with label German foreign policy. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 07, 2019
Friday, January 31, 2014
German President Advocates A More Muscular Foreign Policy
Trigger
German President Joachim Gauck opened the prestigious annual Munich Security Conference with a bang. He sincerely suggested that Germany should play a more dominant role in international politics to
German news:
Following is the full text of the president’s speech:
English news:
Almost Unheard Of In Post-war German History
That a German President in the post war period would advocate a more muscular German foreign policy is almost incredible. Further, the current German President is a protestant pastor and he is from former German Democratic Republic. Latter may explain to some extent his courage to speak out.
Kudos And Support For President Gauck
I have been saying for quite some time that Germany can no longer hide behind its Nazi past to avoid international responsibility. I have also previously argued that Germany has because of its Nazi past an increased responsibility to prevent or defeat other bloody tyrants in this world.
First Reactions
If you read the online commentary to the first German language article mentioned above about the speech by the German President you will notice a lot of readers likened the him to a warmonger and many used ugly ad hominem attacks.
Why am I mentioning this, because this article is published in one of the leading newspapers of Germany and it is known as a conservative newspaper.
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