“Johann Waddevol,” Germany’s foreign minister, on Monday, 15 Tir 1405, said that the Islamic Republic should ultimately pay the cost of any international operation to clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz. According to Euronews, Waddevol made these remarks in an interview with the German newspaper “Handelsblatt,” in response to the question of whether European countries might offer financial incentives to Iran in order to secure Tehran’s consent to a mine-clearing mission.