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Germany to mediate in Iranian crisis

cde.news desk 23 May 2019, 11:11 · 1 min read

epaselect epa07493745 An Iranian man reads the Iranian daily newspaper 'Sazandegi' with a pictures of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani and US President Donald Trump on its front page and the title reading in Persian 'Eyes to Eyes', next to a kiosk in Tehran, Iran, 09 April 2019. The US government on 08 April 2019 said it had designated Iran's revolutionary guards corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, marking the first time a US government has made such a designation on a foreign government's organization. EPA-EFE/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

Germany is going to attempt to mediate in the current crisis between the United States and Iran.

According to report in German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), the policy director of Germany’s Foreign Ministry, Jens Plötner, is heading to Iran on Thursday to meet Iran’s Vice Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Aragchi, one of the negotiators involved in the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran, the US, Britain, Germany, France, China and Russia.

Germany’s Foreign Ministry has called the political situation in the Persian Gulf “decidedly serious,” with regard to the tension building up between Washington and its Arab allies, and Tehran, since US President Donald Trump announced his withdrawal from the nuclear deal last year.

“There is a high chance the situation will escalate — for example because of a misunderstanding or an incident,” the SZ quotes the Foreign Ministry as saying.

Political dialogue was “of major significance” in this situation, the ministry added.

Via DW

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Germany to mediate in Iranian crisis

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