Iran must ‘never have nuclear weapons’: Merz

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Sunday that Iran must “never have nuclear weapons,” his government spokesman said, as Israel continued a campaign of massive strikes targeting Tehran’s nuclear program.

The comment came in a conversation with the sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tarik al Said, in which both leaders agreed on the need to “prevent the conflict from spreading,” German government spokesman Stefan Kornelius said in a statement.