"Iran has warned European leaders against joining the United States and Israel's war that has destabilised the Middle East and upended economies around the world. While countries in Europe have found common ground in condemning Iran's retaliatory strikes on nonbelligerents in the Gulf, their positions have been confused and incoherent in reaction to the US-Israeli action that caused them."
"The fact that Iran is a close ally of Russia, against whose war in Ukraine almost all members of the European Union are united in condemning and containing, and that a Russian antenna was reportedly found on Sunday to have been used in a drone that struck Cyprus, an EU member, has not been enough to rally Europeans against Iran as effectively as they have rallied against Russia."
"The mullah regime is a terrorist regime responsible for decades of oppression of the Iranian people, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday, two days before he met with Trump at the White House. We share the interest of the United States and Israel in seeing an end to this regime's terror and its dangerous nuclear and ballistic armament."
The European Union faces internal divisions over how to respond to Iran's retaliatory strikes and the broader US-Israeli military actions in the Middle East. While EU members have condemned Iran's strikes, their reactions to the US-Israeli actions that prompted them remain inconsistent. Spain has evicted US military aircraft from its bases, drawing criticism from President Trump, while Germany has aligned with US objectives and declared Iran a terrorist regime. The United Kingdom has taken a middle position, allowing defensive military use of its Cyprus base. Germany's stance breaks from its previous alignment with the UK and France, who had supported diplomatic negotiations with Iran even after the US withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal. The presence of Russian involvement complicates the situation further.
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