German chancellor condemns crackdown on protests in Iran

Olaf Scholz says Berlin stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with Iranian people and pledges new sanctionsThe 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 dre