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Araghchi calls Munich Conference a ‘circus’
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday branded the Munich conference a “circus” and the European Union an “aimless” bloc over the pair’s lack of understating about Iran.
“Sad to see the usually serious Munich Security Conference turned into the ‘Munich Circus’ when it comes to Iran,” Araghchi wrote on X, arguing that the annual gathering in Germany had declined as it preferred “substance” over “performance.”
He accused Germany of “wholly surrendering its regional policy to Israel.”
The top diplomat took a swipe at the EU, calling it a “confused “entity that had “lost all geopolitical weight” in the West Asia region.
Araghchi said the EU and the three European powers – Germany, France and Britian or E3 – which were parties to the tattered 2015 Iran nuclear deal, had become “paralysis and irrelevance” as they had been sidelined in the ongoing talks between the Islamic Republic and the United States to hammer out a new agreement.
“Instead, our friends in the region are far more effective and helpful than an empty-handed and peripheral E3,” he said in a clear reference to mediation efforts by several regional nations including Oman, Qatar and Egypt to help progress fresh Iran-US talks that began on February 6 in the Omani capital Muscat.
Earlier on Friday, the Iranian foreign minister in a phone conversation with Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs Constantinos Kombos, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the EU, said the bloc is needed to make a serious revision in its “unconstructive” approaches toward Tehran.
Araghchi criticized the EU’s inappropriate approaches towards Iran, particularly the recent offensive move by the Council of the European Union in blacklisting the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as “terrorist organizations” and the union’s unwarranted interference in Iran’s internal affairs.
On January 30, the European Union added the IRGC to its terrorist list in response to Iran's measures against rioters who violently wreaked havoc across the country on the invitation of a monarchist and the public incitement of US and Israeli leaders in late December.