Academics call on Germany's Baerbock to retract Gaza comments

Three hundred academics have co-signed a letter calling for Germany's foreign minister to retract a statement in which she suggested that civilian buildings in Gaza could lose their protected status under international law.

Germany calls for more military support for Ukraine

Germany’s foreign minister arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday in the latest public display of support for Ukraine by its Western partners.

German support for Israel is damaging its international standing

It’s loud on the terrace of the German embassy in Tel Aviv. The noise from passing cars combines with the shrieking of sirens to make it difficult to hear German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. But she refuses to be distracted by the din. Baerbock is in Israel for the sixth time since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, before Easter, she has a message to send. A message of exasperation.

Punishing Israel as an aggressor is legitimate defense, Iran tells Germany

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Thursday that “legitimate defense” to punish Israel is a “necessity” as the regime violated international law and the Vienna conventions by attacking Iran’s consulate in Damascus on April 1.

When Israeli soldiers shot at hungry Palestinians

GAZA, Occupied East Jerusalem/TUNIS, Tunisia - It has been six days since the Israeli army fired into a crowd of the hungry and the starving at al-Rashid Street in Gaza City, an incident that has been dubbed the Flour Massacre.

By Faramarz Koupayeh

Scholz cannot exonerate himself from complicity in Gaza crimes

Like President Joe Biden, Chancellor Olaf Scholz Biden emboldened Benjamin Netanyahu to commit crimes in Gaza. However, they both are expressing concern about Israel’s plan to attack the southern city of Rafah which is sheltering more than half of the internally displaced Gazan population.

German FM should apologize for her country’s past shameful record: Iran 

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday reacted angrily to anti-Iran remarks by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, saying it was expected that the German foreign minister would have apologized for the “shameful performance” of the previous German government toward the Iranian and Iraqi nations.

By Mehran Shamsuddin

Germany doubles down on hostility toward Iran

TEHRAN – Since the start of the unrest in Iran, the German government has taken measures and stances that escalated tensions between Tehran and Berlin.

War veterans gather in front of German embassy in Tehran

TEHRAN – A number of people and disabled war veterans held a protest rally on Tuesday morning in front of the German embassy in Tehran to show their disgust of Berlin’s interference in Iran’s internal affairs coupled with its role in provoking unrest in the Islamic Republic.

Tehran summons German ambassador over Baerbock’s interventionist remarks

TEHRAN — In response to the interventionist positions of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Berlin’s ambassador in Tehran was summoned on Thursday to the Iranian Foreign Ministry.