Merz said there was a dilemma for Germany in assessing the US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

The German authorities found themselves in a difficult position when assessing the US and Israeli strikes on Iran. This was announced on March 1 by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a press conference in Berlin.

"We have discussed in detail in the federal government the classification of what is currently happening, and from the point of view of international law we see a dilemma," Merz said.

According to him, the attempts made within the framework of international law in recent decades against Iran have not yielded any result. "This puts us in a difficult position," the chancellor said.

Merz also noted that this is a decades-long conflict that Israel and the United States now want to end with military strikes. There is no ideal moment for such actions, but there may come a time when it will be too late, he concluded.

Three out of four: who will be able to lead Iran after the death of Ali Khamenei

Among the possible candidates for the post is the son of a former riding leader and a descendant of the deposed shah.

On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale military operation in Iran. Trump called her goal "protecting the American people."

As part of the Israeli-American Operation Lion's Roar, which used the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles, military installations in western Iran, the residence of the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as an elementary school in the city of Minab were hit.

In response, Iran launched Operation True Promise 4 and attacked American military bases in the Middle East, as well as Israeli cities. The UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Oman and other Persian Gulf countries were affected by the Iranian attacks.

Later, on March 1, it became known that the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed as a result of Israeli attacks. The Iranian government has declared national mourning. An interim governing council has been established in the country, and it has already begun its work. Iranian President Masoud Peseshkian has vowed to avenge Khamenei's death. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences over the death of the Iranian leader and condemned the assassination.

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