{"id":696371,"date":"2026-04-27T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696371"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:24:14","slug":"germanys-merz-says-us-humiliated-by-iranians-trump-lacks-strategy-exit-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696371","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merz Says US &#8216;Humiliated&#8217; By Iranians &#038; Trump Lacks Strategy, Exit Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The Iranians are\u00a0<strong>clearly stronger than expected<\/strong>\u00a0&amp; the Americans clearly<strong>\u00a0have no truly convincing strategy<\/strong><\/em>.<em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in a rare moment torched US foreign policy and the Trump administration&#8217;s Iran war gambit. There&#8217;s been plenty of criticism out of Europe since Operation Epic Fury kicked off on February 28, but Merz&#8217;s Monday words are especially direct and scathing.<\/p>\n<p>He proclaimed that Iran&#8217;s leadership was<strong>\u00a0embarrassing the US<\/strong>, claiming it was prompting US officials to travel to Pakistan and then return without achieving any outcome. &#8220;The Iranians are obviously very skilled ?at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/germanys-merz-says-us-humiliated-iranians-trump-lacks-strategy-exit-plan\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/germanys-merz-says-us-humiliated-iranians-trump-lacks-strategy-exit-plan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Iranians are\u00a0clearly stronger than expected\u00a0&amp; the Americans clearly\u00a0have no truly convincing strategy.&#8220; German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in a rare moment torched US foreign policy and the Trump administration&#8217;s Iran war gambit. There&#8217;s been plenty of criticism out of Europe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696371\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696372,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696371\/revisions\/696372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}