Bundestag vice‑president Omid Nouripour of the Green Party condemned the U.S. extension of the ultimatum to the Iranian regime by President Donald Trump and warned that the strait of Aden could be shut down.
Nouripour told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (Saturday edition) that the Iranian regime had prepared this war for decades with rehearsed plans and still had not yet used the full level of escalation. He added that the regime might, for example, close the strait of Aden through its allies in Yemen. “That would mean not only a halt to oil shipments but also a stoppage of goods from East Asia” he said. “In that way, they would choke the entire world economy”.
According to the Greens’ politician, the regime’s main strength is the U.S.’s lack of a coherent strategy. “With wide margins” Nouripour explained, “the U.S. issues ultimatums, extends them, proposes point‑by‑point plans, yet it neither had a strategy when it started the war nor knows how to pull itself out of it. That is bitterly real, I cannot describe it any other way”.
Nouripour does not see the Iranian regime as weakened. “There are no indications that the regime’s core is rattled. The core may be shrinking, but it is hardening. Above all, the regime increasingly believes it can win the war” he said.
