Iran has dismissed as “hypocritical” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s claims about Tehran seeking to destabilize the region.

In remarks on Wednesday, Scholz said Iran’s missile attacks on Israel must be condemned in the strongest possible terms, claiming that Iran risked setting the entire region ablaze.
“Sir, Iran has no interest in PLAYING with fire (unlike your proxy),” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said in a post on his X account on Thursday, adding that Iran struggles to put out “the fire YOUR lethal gifts (to Israel) have inflicted upon our region.”
He expressed concern over the German chancellor’s “revealingly hypocritical” warning, stressing that those who are complicit in and justify the Israeli regime’s genocide and war crimes in the region and its breach of international humanitarian law “lack any moral high ground to preach others who are bearing the brunt.”

Al Masirah report