Germans ‘disgusted’ by Iran protest crackdown, says chancellor
by Associated Press in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#65RCQ)
Olaf Scholz says responsibility for violence lies solely with regime and pledges new sanctions
The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has strongly criticised the Iranian government for its brutal crackdown on protests and said Germany stood shoulder to shoulder with the Iranian people".
Scholz said the protests sparked by the death on 16 September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her detention by Iran's morality police were no longer merely a question of dress codes" but had evolved into a fight for freedom and justice.
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