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Iran and Germany: A 100-Year Old Love Affair

According to Küntzel, German leaders have at least two other reasons for helping Iran defy the United States. The first is German resentment of defeat in the Second World War followed by foreign occupation, led by the US. The second reason is that Iran is one of the few, if not the only country, where Germans have never been looked at as "war criminals" because of Hitler.

As the 5+1 group ends another round of negotiations with Iran, commentators assume that the four Western powers involved the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany are united in their determination to curtail Iranian nuclear ambitions. However, in this fascinating book, German scholar Matthias Küntzel argues that Germany's position on this issue may be closer to that of Russia rather than the United States – with Germany acting as "a shield for Iran against America," as Germany's former Foreign Minister Joshcka Fischer described his country.

The reason, according to Küntzel, is the "special relationship" that Iran and Germany have built since 1871, when Germany emerged as a nation-state. Two years after Germany was put on the map as a new country, Nassereddin Shah of Iran arrived in Berlin for a state visit of unprecedented pomp.

It is not hard to see why the two sides warmed up to each other. For over a century Iran had looked for a European power capable of counter-balancing the Russian and British empires that had nibbled at the edges of Iranian territory in pursuit of their colonial ambitions. In 1871, Germany looked like a good ally. As for Germans, they saw Iran as their sole potential ally in a Middle East dominated by Britain and Russia. The friendship was put to the test in the First World War, when Iran refused to join the anti-German axis and suffered as a consequence. With the advent of the Nazi regime, Küntzel shows, a new dimension was added to the Irano-German relationship: the myth of shared Aryan ancestry. In World War II Iran again declared its neutrality, but was invaded by Britain and Russia after refusing to sever relations with Germany.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4556/germans-iran

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Germany-Iran trade collapses under U.S. sanctions: report

June 27, 2019

BERLIN (Reuters) - Trade between Germany and Iran has collapsed under the impact of United States sanctions, data published by Funke newspapers showed, supporting Iran’s assertion that Europe is failing to help preserve the nuclear non-proliferation deal it signed.

Data from the German Chamber of Commerce showed that trade volumes between Iran and Europe’s largest economy were down 49% over the first four months of the year compared to the same period in 2018, with volumes continually declining.

The fall - to a total volume of 529 million euros - shows the impact of sanctions, imposed by the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump, that punish companies doing business with Iran by depriving them of access to the U.S. market.

There were some 60 German companies still doing business in Iran, according to Dagmar von Bohnstein, the Chamber’s representative in the country, but they were increasingly working only with local staff.

European powers are keen to preserve the deal signed by Trump’s predecessor, which relaxed international sanctions on Iran in return for Tehran accepting curbs on its nuclear program that are designed to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.

Tehran has said it pursued only a peaceful nuclear program.

European nations have tried to save the deal by maintaining some of its economic benefits despite U.S. sanctions. So far they have failed, with Iran largely shut out from oil markets and all major European companies cancelling plans to invest.

The latest data, showing that German exports to Iran were down 49 percent in the same period to 450 million euros, lend weight to Iran’s insistence that Europe’s efforts are having too little impact for it to be worth Tehran sticking to the agreement.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-germany-trade-idUSKCN1TT040

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Iran during World War II

During and immediately following World War I, British and Russian (later Soviet) troops occupied large pieces of once independent Persia, now known as Iran, despite the country’s declared neutrality.

A military officer serving in the Persian Cossack Brigade and an ardent Persian nationalist, Reza Khan led a military conspiracy aimed at the reestablishment of Iran’s sovereignty under a strong central government. Backed by the British, Reza Khan led a coup d’etat in February 1921, seizing control over Tehran and forcing the weak and corrupt Qajar Shah to appoint journalist Sayyid Zia al-Din Tabatabai as Prime Minister, and himself—Reza Khan—as Minister of War. After he had suppressed several rebellions and established a semblance of centralized control in the country, the Persian national assembly appointed Reza Khan as Prime Minister in 1923 with virtual dictatorial power.

After crushing an Arab nationalist rebellion and with British backing, Reza Khan induced the assembly to depose the Qatar Shah and appoint himself Shah on December 13, 1925. Reza took the name Pahlavi in establishing his new dynasty. The assembly also recognized his eldest son, Muhammad-Reza, as heir to the throne. During his reign, Reza Shah implemented reforms to rebuild the country and to restore political and economic independence. He strove for a modern country with a strong military, united as one instead of divided by multiple religious and tribal groups, and for leadership free from foreign influence. The character of his rule has been controversial: on the one hand he has been perceived as a factor in the modernization of Iran; on the other, his frequent resort to brutal force and his dependence on ethnic favoritism to secure the Pahlavi Dynasty effectively inhibited the development of modern democracy or pluralist government in Iran.

In 1935, the Persian government changed the name of the country from “Persia” to “Iran,” the historical name of the country and a designation in common internal use for centuries. The new designation at the same time distracted attention from the traditional Western designation “Persia” (a term Greek in origin). “Persian” was the historical name of one of the ethnic groups in Iran. With the reforms Reza Shah was implementing, the adoption of a new name for the country was seen as restoring Iran’s historical legacy. While Persia had fallen victim to imperialism, Iran would be free from foreign control.

Iran after the outbreak of World War II

Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, had written about the alleged racial inferiority of non-Europeans, especially Arabs and Indians, in Mein Kampf, published in 1925. Hitler had also been contemptuous of anti-colonial movements, referring to them as a “coalition of cripples” that could never be true partners for the Germans. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, and particularly after the Nazi leadership unleashed World War II by invading Poland in 1939, German soldiers and diplomats, hoping to undermine the strength of the British and French colonial empires, actively sought to influence strategic and economic developments in Iran, India, and the Arab Middle East. Consequently they downplayed racist references to non-Jewish peoples in the Middle East in public discourse. Included in the aims of the 1942 Nazi German summer offensive in the Soviet Union were German occupation of the Caucasus region, and from there invasion of Iraq and Iran in the hopes of severing Great Britain’s transit routes to British India and to the Soviet interior.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/iran-during-world-war-ii

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Parallels Between Present-Day Iran and Nazi Germany

June 3, 2010

n 1933, a totalitarian regime came to power in Germany with the consent of at least a substantial minority of the German people. Its Nazi ideology was rooted in fanatic racism and resentment over recent history. Hitler and those around him preached that it was the destiny of the German race to dominate Europe and exterminate the Jews. One of the Nazis’ most bitter enemies from the beginning was a rival regime — the Soviet Union — whose ideology was rooted in class rather than race but was equally totalitarian.

Shortly after they came to power, the Nazis began a major arms buildup, in violation of their international treaty obligations. They enhanced their control of the instruments of power in German society by creating two new organizations, the SA and the SS, which took over many of the roles of the police and the military, dominating the streets and infiltrating the armed forces. They sought to subvert neighboring countries by using their intelligence service to encourage support for their regime among, for example, the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.

German society was by no means monolithic in its support of the Nazis, particularly at first. Certain groups of clerics and segments of the Prussian officer corps were opposed to Nazi rule; it was from these latter circles that the nearly successful plot to assassinate Hitler came in the early 1940s. Intellectuals, student groups such as the White Rose, and much of organized labor also opposed the Nazis for some time.

But three important factors led the Nazi leadership to believe by 1938–39 that it was free to begin the Holocaust and its conquest of Europe.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2010/06/parallels-between-present-day-iran-and-nazi-germany-r-james-woolsey/

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Germany Leads Trade With Iran

October 19, 2020

Germany had the highest volume of trade with Iran among the 27 members of European Union in the first seven months of 2020, accounting for 41% of Iran's total exchanges with the bloc, latest statistics released by Eurostat show.

Overall trade between Iran and European states decreased by 9% to €2.64 billion during the seven months under review, €1.08 billion of which were between Iran and Germany.

Germany also recorded the highest year-on-year growth in trade with Iran among European states during the period, with 15%.

Italy was Iran's second largest partner in the green continent, though bilateral trade barely exceeds €390 million with a 29% YOY decline.

The Netherlands came third with €291 million worth of trade with Iran, which figure is 2% higher than the same period of last year.

https://financialtribune.com/articles/domestic-economy/105778/germany-leads-trade-with-iran

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Germany Joins Chorus Casting Doubt on Trump Administration Claim That Iran was Behind Attack on Oil Tankers

Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Friday cast doubt on evidence that the U.S. government claims is proof that Iran was behind an attack this week on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.

The attack on the two vessels, one Japanese and one Norwegian, took place as Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was visiting Iran to try to calm tensions between Tehran and Washington.

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-gulf-oman-germany-trump-administration-1444112

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UK, France and Germany agree to reject US demand for Iran snapback sanctions

Foreign ministers from the UK, France and Germany have agreed to hold out against US demands to snapback all UN sanctions on Iran, despite intensified pressure from the US specifically on the UK government to fall into line.

The US was left isolated at the UN security council last month when it said it wished to reimpose snapback sanctions, with the European nations – known collectively as the E3 – arguing that the US was no longer a participant in the deal and so unable to act unilaterally. The US, which left the deal in 2018, described the E3 position as crackers and pandering to terrorists. A further showdown on the issue at the UN is expected this month.

The UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab hosted a meeting in Chevening in Kent with his German and French counterparts Heiko Maas and Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Germany and France, co-operating with the UK over Iran despite the Brexit backdrop, acknowledge there are special UK sensitivities about defying its closest partner the US on such a critical security issue. The European diplomats recognise that the UK wants a free trade deal with the US, and defying the US on snapback may infuriate Donald Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/10/uk-france-and-germany-agree-to-reject-us-demand-for-iran-snapback-sanctions

So, let's see. If you had communist leanings, and/or, just wanted to get rich regardless of how, what two countries would be best to approach with information you may have access to that you could sell for big bucks? Russia? China? What if one group of people already had the Russian market tapped? Or, vise versa? Only so many piggy banks to tap if you want the big bucks. Or, maybe, work both sides of the street? Whores do that you know.

>>13279691

Sure, there are corrupt Jews, but they hardly have a monopoly on corruption. Plenty to go around. Funny how people like you focus only on ONE offender, but somehow ignore the multitudes of others involved. Why is that?

>>13279691

Not going to answer my question are you. Figures. You see the problem is, you're ONLY REAL concern is the Jews, not the corruption that SOME of them are guilty of. You just use the EXCUSE of the corrupt ones, to justify your hatred of the entire people.

I can see right through you.

>>13279728

Damn. Not, "you're." Your. Hate typos.

>>13279843

Probably been more fishermen in that hole than there is sand on the beach.

>>13279906

Your fatal flaw is, you assume that YOU are in charge of the timeline and when information should, or will be released or when action will or will not take place. YOU assume too much.

Do you sit in theaters and before the movie is over……run around shouting that the movie is over? You probably do. How does that work out for ya?

>>13279983

Honestly, I'm on the fence about him. Could go either way in my opinion. YOU, on the other hand, remind me of that German guy in saving pvt Ryan who keeps shouting over the PA that the statue of liberty is kaput.

>>13279995

What's wrong? Did I hit too close to the mark, "friend?" Nice try at deflection, too bad it didn't work.

>>13280027

Funny, it seems you left out all the articles about Germany and Iran. Why is that?

>>13280029

Where are the articles about Iran and Germany? Forget those did ya?

>>13280052

Yeah, yeah sorry. Didn't realize at first you were working on a different bread. I'll let the asshole remark slide since I sort of deserved it, but try not to be one yourself.

>>13280069

Okay, well eat shit and bark at the moon then, I don't care.