Tehran, July 7 -- Iran on Tuesday criticised remarks by Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul over the Strait of Hormuz, calling them a "shameful" distortion of reality and an attempt to deflect attention from Berlin's own responsibilities.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei, in a post on X, said Wadephul's comments on the strategic waterway represented a "grotesque distortion of reality" and accused Germany of seeking to avoid accountability.
"The German Foreign Minister's rhetoric on the Strait of Hormuz is utterly shameful - a grotesque distortion of reality that reeks of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust," Baqaei wrote.
He alleged that Germany should be held responsible for its "complicity in military aggression ag...