Spain First Western Nation to Reopen Embassy in Tehran
After urging suspension of EU-Israel trade deal.
by Joshua Carroll
10 April 2026
Spain will reopen its embassy in the Iranian capital of Tehran – after closing it temporarily amid US-Israeli attacks – as part of efforts to achieve peace there, foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares has said.
”I’ve instructed our ambassador in Tehran to return, to take up his post again and reopen our embassy,” Albares said on Thursday, “and for us to join in this effort for peace from every possible quarter, including from the Iranian capital itself.”
Spain will be the first western country to do so since Iran and the US announced a ceasefire late on Tuesday, which Israel immediately violated by carrying out massacres that killed at least 303 people in Lebanon.
Prime minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday called on the EU to suspend a trade agreement with Israel in response to its indiscriminate bombing in Lebanon, which also injured at least 1,150 people.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “contempt for life and international law is intolerable,” Sanchez said. “There must be no impunity for these criminal acts.”
Spain’s leaders are among Europe’s loudest critics of the illegal war on Iran. Last month, Spain denied the US the use of its bases for the war.
Joshua Carroll is a writer and journalist.