IRIB Interview Christoph Hörstel (engl) – 2025-8-20

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After Iran’s blocking of my visa for high level invitations from Teheran I had stopped all interviews. However, after an urgent request came from an old acquaintance with promise to broadcast and support my visa case, I made an exception: 3 answers on questions about: Iran’s foreign policy, Iran’s Palestine policy, Iran’s success in relations with developing countries. Let’s see the result – I’ll keep you informed.

 

Interview IRIB – 2025-8-18

*1.*

Iran has repeatedly emphasized its commitment to peace and opposition against warmongering in this new era. In your view, how can such a stance enhance Iran’s image within the international community and solidify the country’s position as a responsible global actor?

Iran is outstanding globally in its commitment to prudent diplomacy, careful contacting and diligently building friendships – all in long term commitments.

The world has been watching in „shock and awe“ the US for nearly 250 years, where NOT starting a war was the exception to the rule.

Breaking rules as well as contracts is the rule of western countries, which they have developed into a philosophy and a ruthless system, which can be named shortly as „rule of violent force“, wich they dare to call „rules-based policies“…

Iran has supported international relations not for aggressive warmongering, but to help them wisely rule what they have – and try to improve relations. Those who have declared Hezbollah and Hamas „terrorists“ have written themselves into the books of global history as the true terrorists, fostering terror globally, killing not only the leaders of both Hezbollah and Hamas, who were in fact very moderate and wise leaders with special capabilities to foster understanding and enhance non-violent ways to sort out difficulties. As we understand the methods of the terrorist and genocidal Zionist entity, we learn, that being a peaceful leader in fact invites their terrorist leanings and they resort to killing and warfare and all sorts of crimes, as their criminal leadership feels especially threatened by those, who act correctly, within the rules and show discipline in keeping peace.

This threatening mechanism is hitting Iran since the revolution: Iran nowadays must be very vigilant and well-prepared, because the Zionist entity has a new US president as a complicit aggressor, who doesn’t shy away from full support of genocide and the most ruthless ways of oppression world’s history has ever seen, breaking all kinds of terrible record numbers of victims among medical personnel, civilian helpers, aid workers and journalists, fully supported by western allies and the most advanced spy technologies, to decide when and how to kill or maim specially designated family members of targeted personnel, make hospital special care units drown in sewage or kill thousands of hungry aid seekers randomly and for fun, pushing professional aid suppliers out of service with disgusting lies and even going so far as torturing Palestinian prisoners who had been working for UNWRA to make them confess obviously and provenly non-existent Hamas relations, just to avoid further pains.

The ruthless murder of moderate and honest Hamas leader Ismael Haniya during his Iran visit shows how far the success of the actual policy of IRI has driven its adversaries’ desparation, that brought them to a unique crime in the history of peace negotiations: That one party, the zionist entity, has killed the main person of the other party: Palestine. We learn: The Zionist entity keeps killing – out of weakness and rotten ethics, not out of strength or care for justice or fairness.

Iran has suffered from these policies over decades and has shown unprecedented measures of patience, endurance and steadfastness, which have won international respect, trust, acclaim and access to top contacts, but in some cases: distrust, too.

In my personal case however, Iran’s ministry of foreign affairs is described as having struck a deal wit the German colleagues to refuse my entry into Iran, wich has happened to a small group of other known opposition leaders from other countries, according to my Iranian source: France and Canada being among them.

I very well trust our Iranian friends’ ability to discontinue these mistakes of the past, especially so, since broad-based, deep-rooted, irreversible people-to people friendship between Iran and Germany is enshrined in our party’s foreign policy program since establishment of the program in 2015 – and with me personally since the 90ies of the last century.

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*2.*

The Fourteenth Government’s firm support for the rights of the Palestinian people has been widely welcomed across public opinion in the Islamic world. To what extent do you believe this policy contributes to strengthening the unity of freedom-seekers worldwide and exposing the policies of the Zionist regime?

Iran’s outstanding support of Palestinian rights and statehood wins more and more acclaim where others fail bitterly and do not live and work up to their own principles, proclamations and promises.

To my best analysis, without Iran and Hezbollah, Palestine would have been lost years ago.

All over the world Iran is finding new friends and support, instilling hope in all supporters of Palestine. Iran pays dearly for this honorable policy: terror, sanctions, oppression and sabotage being the means of all those complicit in Zionist genocide against Palestinians.

These undeniable facts can and must be attributed to the shining achievements of the Iranian people, which appear to establish a good background to launch a public relations campaign of both: Iranian pride and sacred effort – simultaneously and globally. This would enhance Iran’s global standing and at the same time highlight the high ethical value of Iran’s countless good efforts, not only in Palestine.

This author is heading since 12 years the only political party in Germany, DIE NEUE MITTE, striving for abolishing the Zionist entity on he same way it was set up: by UN General Assembly vote in 1947. However, when Press TV invited me to hold a speech in front of the Palestine Conference in December 2023, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs killed the proposal immediately, by denying the visa. A formal invitation was never issued. The same happened in March 2023, but only after a beautiful flower-girded invitation was sent out to me by Teheran’s best Military University for a speech at the Teheran International Security Conference: visa denied.

But I’m not only the author of a new global multilateral defense strategy, „Full Spectrum Defense“, which I then presented at Moscow International Security Conference in August that year,

http://eng.mil.ru/files/MCIS%202023%20reports.pdf S. 97

but also an ex-SIEMENS vice president, who has spent 140 million German Marks on a tri-media ad campaign in 2000. And my plan was, to combine all four milestones of excellence: strategy, knowledge, abilities and experience in public relations, political marketing, security and politics in favor of Iran – but somebody in Tehran sabotaged that idea, which at the time had so much inspired and excited the leading officers in Tehran’s Military University.

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*3.*

Confronting the hegemonic ambitions of major powers while simultaneously pursuing constructive engagement with independent states has been identified as a core principle of Iran’s new administration. How do you assess this approach, and what advantages could it bring for developing countries?

This outstanding and unique approach is life-saving for the planet and befits the Velayat-e Faqih ground. Developing countries around the world on all continents are asking themselves, how they could listen to liars and oppressors for so long. Iran has over the past more than 40 years developed a unique expertise in going the good ways, regardless of obstacles.

Iran introduces new abilities, technologies, know-how in various fields as well as spiritual guidance and military expertise, plus economical benefits. This is a unique „success package“ – and Iran’s shining hero, General Qasem Soleimani, was one of the great performers, Gholam Ali Soleimani of Solico Group is another.

The acting Minister for Foreign Affairs Affairs, His Excellency Mr. Abbas Araghchi, to my best analysis, is doing an outstanding job. However, when this author approached him personally, on his mobile phone, in 2012 and again in 2025, he didn’t do anything to improve the situation.

Any government unable to decide who is friend and who is foe, may possibly invite failure, not success.

The questions here point to the strengths of Iranian policy. But as a true and time-proven friend of Iran, it is my sacred duty to point out any obstacles and counterproductive issues: Iran’s biggest adversary looms inside: corruption. (Syria had the same problem, Maher Assad being a prominent failure.) Iranian citizens suffer from it, development, security, defense, credibility – all areas of government are questioned. This author is a witness – and cannot be deterred from supporting Iran. I have never changed our political foreign policy program due to my personal sad experiences. I pity the traitors who lose their hopes and fail in their ugly designs.