The event organizers withdrew invitations for the Islamic Republic but allowed the exiled shah’s son to attend
The Munich Security Conference (MSC) – once a serious international event – has turned into a “circus” that puts “performance over substance,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said.
This year’s conference organizers withdrew invitations for senior Iranian officials following violent riots that gripped the Islamic Republic. Instead, the MSC invited Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s late US-backed Shah, who was toppled in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, to speak.
Pahlavi used the occasion to openly call on the West to bring about regime change in Iran, attended a major rally, and gave an interview to Reuters, urging the US to bomb his country instead of holding talks.
“Sad to see the usually serious Munich Security Conference turned into the ‘Munich Circus’ when it comes to Iran,” Araghchi said in a series of posts on X on Saturday. “The EU appears confused, rooted in an inability to understand what is happening inside Iran… An aimless EU has lost all geopolitical weight in our region.”
– The EU appears confused, rooted in an inability to understand what is happening inside Iran;- Strategically, an aimless EU has lost all geopolitical weight in our region;- Germany, specifically, is leading the way in wholly surrendering its regional policy to Israel.
— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) February 14, 2026
“Europe’s overall trajectory is dire, to say the least,” the foreign minister added. The bloc is “an empty-handed and peripheral” force that is irrelevant to any serious international talks, particularly on the Iranian nuclear program.
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