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Iran: German FM’s remarks on Strait of Hormuz ‘grotesque distortion of reality’
Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei criticized remarks by German’s top diplomat on demining the Strait of Hormuz, describing them as utterly shameful and a grotesque distortion of reality.
In a statement on X on Monday, Baqaei said the German official’s rhetoric exposes Berlin’s complicity in the illegal US-Israeli war of aggression against the Islamic Republic.
“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 stated.
“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 said.
“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,” Baqaei said.
The condemnation came after German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul publicly opposed any form of tolls or service fees for transit through the Strait of Hormuz and claimed Iran must ultimately pay for mine-clearance operations while rejecting any incentives for Tehran’s cooperation.
Wadephul has also insisted the vital waterway must be reopened “without any restrictions whatsoever” and without the possibility of levying charges, a position Iranian officials view as blatant interference in the Islamic Republic’s sovereign rights.
The Strait of Hormuz remains under the full and exclusive authority of the Islamic Republic following the US-Israeli war of aggression.
Iranian forces continue to exercise intelligent control over all traffic through the strategic chokepoint.
Senior Iranian lawmakers have repeatedly stated that the management of the Strait of Hormuz is solely Iran’s responsibility as an inseparable part of national sovereignty.