The German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has communicated this Thursday that the Government of Germany will resume conversations with the authorities of Iran, taking advantage of the fact that both the United States and Tehran have joined the ceasefire. However, he has warned beforehand that future rounds of dialogue will be "difficult," especially regarding the relations between Washington and the Islamic Republic.
"After a long silence, motivated by weighty reasons on our part, the German Government has now decided to resume talks with Tehran. We are doing this in consultation with the United States and our European partners, he explained.
As Merz detailed, "the objective is to contribute to the success of the upcoming negotiations between the United States and Iran to end the war in the region," as reported by the ARN channel, the German public television.
The German leader has added that, in a recent conversation with the American president, Donald Trump, he conveyed to him the request that he keep open the negotiation channels with Tehran. At the same time, he has harshly condemned Israel's bombings on Lebanon, carried out despite the truce and that on Wednesday caused more than 200 deaths in a single day of attacks on Lebanese territory.
"The brutality with which Israel wages war there could derail the entire peace process. And that must not happen," he affirmed, before stating that the Israeli Government has been asked "to put an end to the intensification of the attacks."
Merz has stressed that "we observe the situation throughout the region with great concern, but with special concern the situation in southern Lebanon," while remarking that "diplomatic success is not assured, at all."
Despite this, the chancellor has remarked that, after the start of the offensive undertaken at the end of February by the United States and Israel, which has caused more than 3,000 deaths in Iran, an opportunity has now opened to move towards "a negotiated solution."
"The announcement of an unmeasured escalation, which was being considered in recent days, has been avoided for the moment," he stressed, alluding to the threats launched by Trump, who went so far as to assure that he would annihilate "an entire civilization."
In this context, he/she has insisted that "the last 24 hours have by themselves demonstrated how fragile the ceasefire in the region is, how uncertain the situation in the Strait of Hormuz remains and how distant the positions of the parties involved remain".