What role does the Federal Republic of Germany play in the Iran conflict?
Here, Germany unfortunately plays the role of a seemingly disinterested spectator. In reality, the German government supports, goes along with, and sometimes even schemes for the policy of the Bush administration, which is implementing ever sharper sanctions against Iran. It is very naive of Berlin. Actually, thinking people like German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier long ago realized that, for the United States, the Iranian nuclear program was a pretext for war just like the alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. What impacts would a war against Iran have on the region? The region would fall into a long period of destabilization. The central state would cease to exist in Iran, and the country would be “Afghanized” and “Iraqified.” From which do you think the United States would profit more: a stable or unstable region? Let’s stick to the example of Iraq: its destabilization has benefited the US military-industrial complex and the oil and construction industries, which
