Germany’s Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil has ruled out joining the US-Israeli war in Iran, saying he has “great doubts that this war is legitimate under international law”.

“I say very clearly: This is not our war. We will not participate in this war,” he told media outlet RND, warning of “the great danger that we are sliding ever deeper into a world where there are no longer any rules.

“We do not want to live in a world where only the law of the strongest applies,” he added.