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Omid Nouripour, vice president of Germany’s federal parliament, said Western governments had failed to apply enough pressure on Iran’s authorities and called for greater unity and solidarity with the Iranian people.
In a video posted on X, Nouripour said European governments had not done enough to break what he described as their silence, and that the United States had failed to live up to promises it had made to Iranians.
“We were not able to put enough pressure on the European governments to break their silence,” he said. “We could not put enough pressure on the US government to fulfill the promises it made to the Iranian people.”
“No one should have to risk being shot,” Nouripour said, adding that the authorities’ response to rising costs and lack of freedom had been “killing and oppression.”
Iran’s parliamentary national security commission said any attack on the country’s supreme leader would amount to a declaration of war on the Muslim world, state media reported on Tuesday.
“Any affront to the Supreme Leader means a declaration of war against the entire Islamic world and should expect the issuance of jihad rulings by Islamic scholars and a response from the soldiers of Islam across the globe,” the commission said in a statement.
The comments came as tensions rose following remarks by US President Donald Trump about Iran’s leadership.
Separately, senior Iranian military official Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi issued a warning to Washington.
“If a hand is raised against our leader, we will cut it off,” Shekarchi was quoted as saying by Iranian media, adding that Iran would leave “no safe place” for its enemies.
Trump recently called Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei a “sick man” and said it was time for new leadership in Iran.
Witnesses in the southern Iranian city of Marvdasht, in Fars province, have told Iran International that streets and alleys are lined with memorial displays and banners for those killed in recent unrest.
According to information received on Tuesday, the city has fallen into what witnesses described as a state of collective mourning following a heavy security crackdown.
Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB said authorities cut off around 40,000 Starlink satellite internet connections as part of efforts to halt what it described as “US-Israeli terrorist operations” inside the country.
In a report aired on Tuesday, IRIB linked the move to Iran’s nationwide internet blackout, saying satellite-based connections had been used by what it called hostile networks.
The broadcaster portrayed the protests as foreign-backed, blaming the United States and Israel for what it described as a campaign of unrest.
Iranian officials have repeatedly accused outside powers of stirring protests, while demonstrators say they are protesting over political and economic grievances.
A senior Iranian military official warned of severe retaliation against the United States after President Donald Trump called Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei a “sick man” and said it was time for new leadership in Tehran, state media reported.
Speaking at a public event, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, the cultural deputy of Iran’s armed forces general staff, dismissed Trump’s remarks.
“We do not take Trump’s noise very seriously,” Shekarchi was quoted as saying.
He added: “Trump knows that if a hand is stretched toward our leader, we will not only cut that hand off – we will set their world on fire. This is not a slogan.”
Shekarchi said Iran would leave “no safe place” for its enemies in the event of any attack.
Trump made his comments on Saturday after Khamenei blamed him for protests in Iran.
“It’s time to look for new leadership in Iran,” Politico quoted Trump as saying.
Trump said Iran’s rulers relied on repression and violence to govern.
“The man is a sick man who should run his country properly and stop killing people,” Trump said. “Leadership is about respect, not fear and death.”
