Overview
- Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, said in a new interview that President Frank‑Walter Steinmeier violated Germany’s stated duty to safeguard Israel by labeling the US‑Israel war against Iran illegal.
- Steinmeier had said the campaign in Iran was a breach of international law, a sharper line than the German government, which has avoided using that label.
- Prosor defended the strikes on Iran as necessary to remove a nuclear threat and said a leadership “decapitation strike” succeeded only under strict secrecy, offering this as his account of why Europe was not consulted.
- He warned that attacks in Europe are possible, citing potential sleeper cells linked to Iran and saying Israeli and European services are working to blunt that risk.
- Addressing operations on the Lebanese front, Prosor said Israel does not plan a permanent occupation of the south and urged Germany to back Israel in UN forums while accusing Chancellor Friedrich Merz of applying double standards over visits by Benjamin Netanyahu and Syria’s Ahmed al‑Sharaa.