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German Foreign Minister Rebuked After Saying Sabotage of Iranian Nuclear Facility ‘Not a Positive Contribution’
The Algemeiner ^ | APRIL 12, 2021

Posted on 04/12/2021 11:36:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas speaks during a joint news conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, following a meeting in Moscow, Russia, May 10, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Sergei Karpukhin.

The foreign minister of Germany was criticized on Monday after he expressed disapproval of the sabotaging over the weekend of Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, which has been widely attributed to Israel.

The details of the Natanz incident remain unclear, but reports indicate that it involved a systemic power failure caused by a massive cyber-attack, resulting in serious damage to the facility. There were no casualties in the incident.

On Monday, the Associated Press reported that German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the Natanz incident was “not a positive contribution” to the diplomatic process underway in Vienna, where the US and Iran are holding indirect talks on a possible return to the 2015 nuclear deal from which former president Donald Trump withdrew in 2018.

Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, criticized Maas and the diplomatic process, telling The Algemeiner, “Foreign Minister Maas is 100% correct. The sabotage won’t help talks whose main agenda is to get rid of tough sanctions on Iran.”

“This is a regime that has violated the nuclear agreement time and time again, threatens genocide against Israel, poses an existential threat to the Gulf States, and blatantly puts in place a spy/terror network across Europe,” he noted of Iran.

“The sabotage at the nuclear facility was only necessary because European powers have blinked every time Tehran advances its nuclear weapons development,” Cooper asserted. “Germany has made it abundantly clear that its deep economic ties with Iran override all other concerns.”

Hillel Neuer, head of the NGO UN Watch, also criticized Maas, saying, “While the foreign minister speaks officially for the German government, I know many German people who do understand the murderous nature of the Iranian regime and think otherwise than Mr. Heiko Maas.”

Meanwhile, the Biden administration appeared to back away from the fallout over the Natanz incident.

According to Axios, a senior White House official said, “We have seen reports of an incident at the Natanz enrichment facility in Iran. The United States had no involvement, and we have nothing to add to speculation about the causes.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; atomic; diplomat; energy; europeanunion; eussr; fourthreich; germany; heikomaas; iran; iraq; irgc; isis; israel; jcpoa; maas; middleeast; natanz; nuclear; rop; russia; sergeilavrov; weapons; worldwar3

1 posted on 04/12/2021 11:36:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Gee, this sounds so familiar.


2 posted on 04/13/2021 12:02:08 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: nickcarraway

He sounds like one one of our rhinos


3 posted on 04/13/2021 12:19:57 AM PDT by saintgermaine (THE TIME TRAVELLER )
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To: nickcarraway

Germany has always had a special relationship with Muslims and I have read somewhere that they did somethings to Jews in the past.


4 posted on 04/13/2021 12:26:45 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

[The foreign minister of Germany was criticized on Monday after he expressed disapproval of the sabotaging over the weekend of Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, which has been widely attributed to Israel.]

How long until the mullahs invite him to visit?


5 posted on 04/13/2021 12:49:06 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s a matter of opinion.


6 posted on 04/13/2021 12:58:09 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: nickcarraway

The German Foreign Minister is not a prophet. He might even be politically biased and inadequately objective to make a good guess. No one knows what the future outcome of the facility’s failure will be for sure.


7 posted on 04/13/2021 1:42:35 AM PDT by familyop (Only here for the tales from the rubber room. :D)
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To: nickcarraway

“According to Axios, a senior White House official said, “We have seen reports of an incident at the Natanz enrichment facility in Iran. The United States had no involvement, and we have nothing to add to speculation about the causes.””

For once they’re telling the truth here - there is no way that Israel will trust a Democrat administration, considering what Obama’s Jew-haters did to them.


8 posted on 04/13/2021 1:55:05 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, criticized Maas and the diplomatic process, telling The Algemeiner, “Foreign Minister Maas is 100% correct. The sabotage won’t help talks whose main agenda is to get rid of tough sanctions on Iran.” “This is a regime that has violated the nuclear agreement time and time again, threatens genocide against Israel, poses an existential threat to the Gulf States, and blatantly puts in place a spy/terror network across Europe,” he noted of Iran. “The sabotage at the nuclear facility was only necessary because European powers have blinked every time Tehran advances its nuclear weapons development,” Cooper asserted. “Germany has made it abundantly clear that its deep economic ties with Iran override all other concerns.” Hillel Neuer, head of the NGO UN Watch, also criticized Maas, saying, “While the foreign minister speaks officially for the German government, I know many German people who do understand the murderous nature of the Iranian regime and think otherwise than Mr. Heiko Maas.”

9 posted on 04/13/2021 2:03:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the Natanz incident was “not a positive contribution”

But very appropriate and quite necessary, considering how weak the leaders of the west are.

10 posted on 04/13/2021 2:50:00 AM PDT by MAAG (Thank Him for His patience, it’s a measure of His love.)
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“This is a regime that has violated the nuclear agreement time and time again, threatens genocide against Israel, poses an existential threat to the Gulf States, and blatantly puts in place a spy/terror network across Europe,” he noted of Iran.

Speaking truth to idiot Germans....

11 posted on 04/13/2021 8:25:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (We need a better class of 'elites' - the ones we have now are more like stupid white trash...)
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12 posted on 04/13/2021 8:41:18 AM PDT by SJackson ([Rome}A city for sale and doomed to quick destruction, if it should find a buyer, Gaius Crispus)
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To: shanover

“Germany has always had a special relationship with Muslims”

In a previous existence, I was involved with the relatively successful development of an electronic subsurface exploration system which I would probably describe as a low frequency ground penetrating radar. Its readings readings of interest result from differences in electrical conductivity in the zone of influence of a radiated signal. Its sort of a metal detector.

I didn’t have any real money and they moved on to other sources. After Y2K, I discovered that they did the subsoil searches under contract with the UN weapons inspectors in Iraq a few years previously.

They found a number of interesting buried things in the desert, including obvious machinery and parts on pallets to process uranium for whatever.

Among my questions was, “Where was the source of these materials?”

Answer - Germany and France.

The also mentioned that the desert was a pristine environment for measurements, but that their stuff would disappear and show up in the market the next day.


13 posted on 04/13/2021 8:57:49 AM PDT by Western Phil
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To: shanover

👍


14 posted on 04/13/2021 10:52:08 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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