Israel said its carrying out strikes inside Iran with ‘unprecedented intensity,’ destroying numerous security offices and damaging the gate at Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison. DW has the latest.
Trump ‘still interested’ in Iran diplomacy, White House says
US President Donald Trump is reportedly still open to diplomacy with Iran following strikes carried out by US bombers over the weekend, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
“If the Iranian regime refuses to come to a peaceful diplomatic solution, which the president is still interested in and engaging in, by the way, why shouldn’t the Iranian people take away the power of this incredibly violent regime that has been suppressing them for decades?” Leavitt said on Fox News.
Trump earlier in the day suggested regime change if the Iranian government cannot “MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN,” he said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
Many of Trump’s supporters and allies are opposed to the US getting involved in another war for regime change in the Middle East, some two decades after toppling Saddam Hussein in neighboring Iraq.
Germany’s CDU says supports US attacks despite foreign minister’s comment
A top figure in Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said on Monday that his party supported the attacks on Iran by Israel and the US
The remarks came after after Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, from the same party, called the US actions “unfortunate.”
In an interview with public-service broadcaster ZDF on Sunday, Wadephul said, “Unfortunately, there has now been this military action, which the US seemed to feel was necessary.”
The CDU’s general secretary, Carsten Linnemann, said the German government’s support for the attacks did not contradict Wadephul’s statements.
“There is no contradiction in, on the one hand, working toward a diplomatic resolution and, on the other, supporting these military strikes by the US and Israel — and that is precisely what this government does,” he said. “That is why I consider the actions by the Americans in this regard as right.”
He added that “the mullah regime [in Iran] has suffused this world with terror for 40 years.”
Source: https://www.dw.com/en/israel-strikes-irans-evin-prison-in-tehran/live-73001224
