Overview
- Spain’s foreign minister José Manuel Albares directed Ambassador Antonio Sánchez-Benedito Gaspar to return to Tehran and restart the embassy to support the ceasefire.
- The ministry set a roughly two-week window for the reopening, describing it as a limited, mission-focused deployment tied to the truce.
- The embassy had been evacuated earlier in the conflict because of security risks to staff during broader evacuations of Spanish nationals.
- Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar condemned the decision as an "eternal shame" and pointed to Iran’s renewed executions of protesters and dissidents.
- Albares called the truce fragile and highlighted Lebanon’s security and sovereignty, a stance that tracks with Spain’s recent distancing from Israel, including recognition of Palestinian statehood and a permanent arms embargo.