{"id":26341,"date":"2019-06-19T13:09:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T12:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/26341-germany-s-chancellor-merkel-there-s-strong-evidence-iran-regime-carried-out-tanker-attacks"},"modified":"2023-01-20T09:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T08:12:29","slug":"germany-s-chancellor-merkel-there-s-strong-evidence-iran-regime-carried-out-tanker-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/germany-s-chancellor-merkel-there-s-strong-evidence-iran-regime-carried-out-tanker-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Chancellor Merkel: There&#8217;s &#8216;Strong Evidence&#8217; Iran Regime Carried out Tanker Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Germanys_Chancellor_Merkel_Theres_Strong_Evidence_Iran_Regime_Carried_out_Tanker_Attacks\" class=\" size-full wp-image-53291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Germanys_Chancellor_Merkel_Theres_Strong_Evidence_Iran_Regime_Carried_out_Tanker_Attacks.jpg\" alt=\"Germany&#039;s Chancellor Merkel: There&#039;s &#039;Strong Evidence&#039; Iran Regime Carried out Tanker Attacks\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Germanys_Chancellor_Merkel_Theres_Strong_Evidence_Iran_Regime_Carried_out_Tanker_Attacks.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Germanys_Chancellor_Merkel_Theres_Strong_Evidence_Iran_Regime_Carried_out_Tanker_Attacks-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Germanys_Chancellor_Merkel_Theres_Strong_Evidence_Iran_Regime_Carried_out_Tanker_Attacks-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Germanys_Chancellor_Merkel_Theres_Strong_Evidence_Iran_Regime_Carried_out_Tanker_Attacks-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0Mahmoud Hakamian<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is \u201cstrong evidence\u201d supporting a U.S. accusation that the Iranian regime was behind last week\u2019s attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe of course take these explanations very seriously, and there is strong evidence,\u201d Chancellor Merkel said at a news conference Tuesday after talks with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that does not prevent me from saying that we must do everything to solve the conflict with Iran in a peaceful way,\u201d Merkel said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a very serious situation,&#8221; she said, adding that Germany is in \u201cthe closest contact\u201d with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the Iranian regime&#8217;s announcement Monday that it would breach its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, Chancellor Merkel said: \u201cWe are pushing for Iran to keep to (the nuclear pact) &#8211; if that is not the case, there will of course be consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon on Monday released new photos and a timeline of the tanker attacks that have heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>United Kingdom officials have said it is \u201calmost certain\u201d that Iran&#8217;s regime was responsible for the attacks. U.S. President Donald Trump said last week that \u201cIran did it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Mahmoud Hakamian German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is &ldquo;strong evidence&rdquo; supporting a U.S. accusation that the Iranian regime was behind last week&rsquo;s attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[178],"class_list":{"0":"post-26341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism","8":"tag-save"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Germany&#039;s Chancellor Merkel: There&#039;s &#039;Strong Evidence&#039; Iran Regime Carried out Tanker Attacks - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By\u00a0Mahmoud Hakamian German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is \u201cstrong evidence\u201d supporting a U.S. accusation that the Iranian regime was behind last\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/germany-s-chancellor-merkel-there-s-strong-evidence-iran-regime-carried-out-tanker-attacks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Germany&#039;s Chancellor Merkel: There&#039;s &#039;Strong Evidence&#039; 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