{"id":63889,"date":"2026-03-11T18:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=63889"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:52:22","slug":"pedro-sanchez-cuts-spains-bridges-with-israel-but-maintains-them-with-russia-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/03\/11\/pedro-sanchez-cuts-spains-bridges-with-israel-but-maintains-them-with-russia-and-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro S\u00e1nchez cuts Spain's 'bridges' with Israel but maintains them with Russia and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leftist government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez pretends to be a defender of international law, but the facts tell a different story.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/15\/sanchez-equates-israel-an-attacked-country-with-russia-but-doesnt-accuse-putin-of-genocide\/\">S\u00e1nchez equates Israel, an attacked country, with Russia but doesn't accuse Putin of 'genocide'<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/15\/sanchez-equates-israel-an-attacked-country-with-russia-but-doesnt-accuse-putin-of-genocide\/\">S\u00e1nchez accepted human rights advice from the Iranian dictatorship that kills protesters<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Pedro S\u00e1nchez's lies to demonize Israel<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/boe.es\/boe\/dias\/2026\/03\/11\/pdfs\/BOE-A-2026-5614.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Official State Gazette (BOE) published the dismissal of the Spanish ambassador to Israel<\/a>, Ana Mar\u00eda Salomon P\u00e9rez, <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.elmundo.es\/espana\/2025\/09\/08\/68bee0bbe4d4d8dd048b4579.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who had been recalled from that country in September 2025<\/a>, citing \"slanderous accusations against Spain\" and the sanctions imposed by the Israeli government on the communist ministers Yolanda D\u00edaz and Sira Rego for their anti-Semitic statements. The excuses of S\u00e1nchez's government were very cynical, since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/15\/sanchezs-double-standard-he-calls-israel-genocidal-but-not-hamas-russia-or-china\/\">the Spanish socialist leader falsely accused Israel of \"genocide\"<\/a>, <strong>an accusation that S\u00e1nchez has not once leveled against Russia<\/strong> in four years of invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The double standards of the Spanish leftist government with Israel and Russia are scandalous. In his already blatant campaign to demonize the Jewish state, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/15\/sanchez-equates-israel-an-attacked-country-with-russia-but-doesnt-accuse-putin-of-genocide\/\">on September 15, 2025, S\u00e1nchez equated Israel with Russia<\/a>, <strong>comparing the Israeli occupation of Gaza with the Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/strong> \u2014an absolute manipulation that overlooked the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/07\/terrorist-attack-on-israel-once-again-the-communists-and-the-nazis-united-in-infamy\/\">Israel was attacked by the terrorist organization Hamas<\/a>, which controlled the government of Gaza, on September 7. October 2023, and did so by perpetrating the largest anti-Semitic massacre since the Holocaust (something that truly deserves to be classified as a crime of genocide). However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/24\/russia-attacks-ukraine-on-a-large-scale-free-world-must-now-confront-the-criminal-putin\/\">Russia attacked and invaded Ukraine without any provocation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez keeps Spain's ambassador in Moscow<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Curiously, <strong>S\u00e1nchez has refused to withdraw the Spanish ambassador from Moscow<\/strong>. His government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/espana\/2022-10-27\/gobierno-nuevo-embajador-rusia-abiertos-cauces-diplomaticos_3513465\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stated<\/a> in 2022: <em>\"If the peace we all desire comes, it will come through diplomacy. <strong>Spain will not sever any bridges that could stop this war<\/strong>\"<\/em>. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/2024\/06\/27\/rusia-concede-el-placet-para-nombrar-a-ricardo-martinez-nuevo-embajador-en-moscu\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2024 the S\u00e1nchez government appointed a new ambassador to Moscow<\/a>, which Putin approved in June of that year. In addition to the embassy, \u200b\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.exteriores.gob.es\/Embajadas\/moscu\/es\/Embajada\/Paginas\/Consulados.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain also maintains consulates in Moscow and Saint Petersburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez has also kept Spain's ambassador to Iran.<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Something similar is happening with the Iranian dictatorship. <strong>S\u00e1nchez has also refused to withdraw the Spanish ambassador from Iran<\/strong>, even after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/26\/iran-30-days-of-protests-more-than-36500-people-killed-and-many-masks-dropped\/\">the massacre of more than 36,500 people for demanding freedom<\/a>, perpetrated by that Islamist regime at the beginning of this year: the worst massacre in the country's history. <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/espana\/2026-03-07\/espana-cierra-su-embajada-en-teheran-y-evacua-al-personal-diplomatico-por-falta-de-seguridad.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The government only decided to temporarily close the Spanish embassy last week<\/a> because of the US and Israeli military operation against the Iranian dictatorship, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/es\/espa%C3%B1a-anuncia-la-evacuaci%C3%B3n-de-su-embajadora-de-ucrania\/a-60913039\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as it did four years ago in Ukraine<\/a>. However, <strong>the Spanish diplomatic delegation in Tehran remained during the Iranian regime's attacks against Israel<\/strong>, after which the S\u00e1nchez government did not decide to break diplomatic ties with that Islamist regime.<\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez did withdraw Spain's ambassador from Argentina<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The double standards of S\u00e1nchez's government with Israel are also reminiscent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/19\/the-cynicism-of-the-sanchez-govt-it-insults-javier-milei-and-now-it-pretends-to-be-offended\/\">its decision to withdraw Spain's ambassador to Argentina in May 2024<\/a>, after <strong>serious attacks and insults launched from the leftist government of Spain against the Argentine president, Javier Milei<\/strong>, attacks that prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/04\/javier-mileis-forceful-response-to-the-defamation-of-a-minister-of-pedro-sanchez\/\">an official protest from Argentina<\/a>. It just so happens that <strong>both Israel and Argentina have right-wing governments<\/strong>. This explains S\u00e1nchez's growing hostility towards those countries while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/03\/21\/the-crimes-of-the-communist-dictatorship-of-china-which-is-praised-by-pedro-sanchez\/\">the Spanish socialist leader heaps praise on the criminal communist dictatorship in China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>A sectarian diplomatic policy that brings he closer to Russia's allies.<\/big><\/p>\n<p>With its partisan and sectarian use of diplomatic relations, <strong>the S\u00e1nchez government is generating international tensions with friendly countries to further its domestic political agenda<\/strong> (specifically to create smokescreens to cover up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/06\/12\/socialist-corruption-in-spain-briefly-explained-to-people-from-other-countries\/\">its corruption scandals<\/a>, which have considerably reduced support for S\u00e1nchez's party, the PSOE, in the polls), <strong>while maintaining open ties with terrorist regimes like Russia and Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With this, <strong>the S\u00e1nchez coalition government, formed by socialists and communists, is adopting a foreign policy that distances it from our allies<\/strong> (especially our largest strategic partner, which until now has been the United States) <strong>and brings it ever closer to dictatorships allied with Russia<\/strong>, to extremes that deserve to be described as purely aberrant. Let us remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/11\/sanchez-accepted-human-rights-advice-from-the-iranian-dictatorship-that-kills-protesters\/\">the S\u00e1nchez government even accepted human rights advice from the Iranian dictatorship<\/a>, a brutal regime that arrests and murders opponents, hangs homosexuals, mistreats women, and persecutes Christians.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/multimedia\/galeriasfotograficas\/presidente\/Paginas\/2023\/290523-sanchez-elecciones.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">La Moncloa<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leftist government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez pretends to be a defender of international law, but the facts tell a different story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10398],"tags":[26434,2081,822,95,15483,2721,10731],"class_list":["post-63889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-ana-maria-salomon-perez","tag-argentina","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-javier-milei","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-russia"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 23:29:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}