They are very good at negotiating: German Chancellor Merz believes that the United States is being humiliated by Iran.

Two months of war against Iran and the United States still haven’t won. As negotiations appear stalled between Washington and Tehran, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz estimated on Monday, April 27th that the Americans were “humiliated” by the Iranians, according to news agency Reuters and the British newspaper The Guardian.

According to these two sources, German Chancellor was addressing students in Marseberg, in central-west Germany, when he suggested that Donald Trump’s team was being blindsided by the Tehran regime.

“The Iranians are obviously very skillful at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, by allowing the Americans to go to Islamabad and then leave without results,” Friedrich Merz stated.

“A whole nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. I hope this will end as soon as possible,” he added.

A meeting between American and Iranian negotiators took place in the Pakistani capital in early April, but did not lead to a resolution in the conflict. Over the weekend, the United States canceled a second round of negotiations in Islamabad.

In parallel, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met his ally Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg on Monday, April 27th. On this occasion, he attributed the failure of the talks to the “excessive demands” of the United States.

Iranian offer being discussed

“We have all the cards in hand,” Donald Trump stated the day before, announcing that Americans were abandoning direct negotiations. “I said we’re not going to do that anymore,” he declared on Fox News. “If they want to talk, they can come to us, or they can call us, we have very good secure phone lines”, he added. “We have done very well, this will end soon, and we will be very victorious.”

On Monday, the United States said they were reviewing the latest proposals from Tehran to unlock the Strait of Hormuz. A new Iranian proposal is “under review,” stated White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, following reports that the Islamic Republic had made a new offer through Pakistani mediators.

“We clearly will not negotiate through the press,” stated Secretary of State Marco Rubio when asked about it. However, he assured that the offer “is better than what we thought they would propose.”

“But we must ensure that any agreement reached prevents them from ever having nuclear weapons at any time,” the diplomat insisted.