US exit from Iran accord has increased tensions: Merkel

Bloomberg

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal has increased tensions.
“We are following the events between Iran and Israel, bearing in mind that Israel’s security” is important to Germany, Merkel said in comments reported by the Ansa newswire.
She spoke after receiving the Lamp of Peace of St. Francis award in Assisi, Italy.
Introduced by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, a former Nobel Peace Price winner and recipient of the Assisi honour last year, Merkel said that Europe needs to remember and strengthen its values if it wants to protect its own peace and security.
“If we don’t know how to give Europe a soul, we will lose this game,” she said, quoting former European Commission President Romano Prodi.
Speaking about refugees coming from Africa, a hot-button political issue that has fueled nationalism in both Italy and Germany, Merkel said, “if we want to create peace, we must not only think about our own well-being. Together with our neighbours, we must search for a solution.”