The UN Security Council's five permanent members and Germany are scheduled to begin talks with Iran in Geneva on Thursday in an effort to diffuse tensions created by Tehran latest tests of short and medium-range missiles. The goal is to end the impasse over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
But few people expect any sort of major breakthrough, and if the issue remains unresolved, the result could be stepped-up sanctions by the West against Iran.
In an interview with German public broadcaster ARD, the Bush administration's former point man on Iran, Nicholas Burns, said Germany had not been as stringent on sanctions as France or the UK, and he called for greater solidarity from Berlin with the US-led effort to rein in Tehran.
Deutsche Welle wanted to know if there was truth to the idea that Germany, which is heavily dependent on exports, has been comparatively soft on Iran. So we talked to Michael Bauer, an Iran expert at the Center for Applied Political Research at the University of Munich.
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