In a message in German language posted on his X account, Baqaei said the German chancellor’s hypocrisy was evident because open attacks by the US and the Israeli regime against Iran’s safeguarded nuclear facilities were met not with condemnation, but with excuses and justifications.
The spokesman added that when an alleged “false-flag operation” occurred — whose responsibility even the United Arab Emirates had refused to officially attribute to Iran — the same voices suddenly invoked the solemn language of “international law” and “regional security.”
Baqaei stressed that if attacks on nuclear facilities threaten the people of the region, then the principle should apply equally to all countries and not only when it serves the West’s political expediency.
The Iranian spokesman further said that such selective notions of justice were reminiscent of Judge Adam in ‘The Broken Jug’ play by Heinrich von Kleist, describing him as a man whose own inexcusable misconduct itself warranted judgment, yet who arrogantly presumed to sit in judgment over others.