In a post on his X account, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said the German foreign minister’s comments have ignored the circumstances surrounding the conflict and represented an attempt to shift blame onto Iran.
“The German Foreign Minister’s rhetoric on the Strait of Hormuz is utterly shameful — a grotesque distortion of reality that reeks of Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust,” Baqaei said.
“Germany must be held fully accountable for its complicity in military aggression against Iran and bear the heavy costs of its active participation in the crime of aggression,” he added.
“No amount of offensive posturing will allow the Berlin regime to evade responsibility for its role in this illegal war and the war crimes committed against the Iranian people,” the Iranian spokesman stated.
His remarks came after the German foreign minister called on Tehran to pay for mine clearance operations in the Strait of Hormuz, a statement that drew Tehran’s condemnation over Berlin’s failure to acknowledge the unprovoked US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran.