{"id":37364,"date":"2026-05-19T21:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/german-chancellor-merz-iran-must-stop-playing-with-time-return-to-the-negotiating-table\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:15:27","slug":"german-chancellor-merz-iran-must-stop-playing-with-time-return-to-the-negotiating-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/german-chancellor-merz-iran-must-stop-playing-with-time-return-to-the-negotiating-table\/","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Merz: Iran must stop playing with time, return to the negotiating table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/alman-istihbaratina-merz-nesteri-ck6a-merz.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged Tehran to return to negotiations with the US, warning that a prolonged conflict will have serious consequences throughout the region and beyond, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran must sit down at the negotiating table. It must stop playing with time,&#8221; Merz said at a joint press conference with Swiss President Guy Parmelin in Berlin. &#8220;Iran must no longer hold the region &#8211; and the entire world &#8211; hostage,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came a day after US President Donald Trump announced he had decided to postpone a major military strike against Iran planned for Tuesday, following direct appeals from the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump added that he had instructed senior defense and military officials to &#8220;to be prepared to proceed with a full-scale and full-scale attack on Iran, at any time, in the event that an acceptable agreement is not reached&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Merz underlined that the ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is threatening the global economy and causing significant damage to export-oriented countries such as Germany and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, we are working with our partners to restore freedom of navigation.&#8221; in the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible,&#8221; Merz told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once the necessary preconditions are met, Germany will also be ready to contribute its military capabilities to this effort,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged Tehran to return to negotiations with the US, warning that a prolonged conflict will have serious consequences throughout the region and beyond, reports Anadolu. &#8220;Iran must sit down at the negotiating table. It must stop playing with time,&#8221; Merz said at a joint press conference with Swiss President Guy Parmelin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-37364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37366,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37364\/revisions\/37366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}