Spain to reopen embassy in Iran, orders ambassador to return

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Spain will immediately reopen its embassy in Tehran and has ordered its ambassador to return, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Thursday, April 9.

The announcement came a day after a 14-day ceasefire was agreed upon among the United States, Israel, and Iran.

Albares said Ambassador Antonio Sanchez-Benedito had been instructed to return to Tehran and resume embassy operations, which had been suspended on March 7 after U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.

“We want to contribute from all fronts, including from Tehran, to efforts for peace,” he said.

Albares also called Israel’s continued attacks in Lebanon — which he said risk undermining the ceasefire — “a disgrace.”

Spain had evacuated its ambassador from Iran in early March after hostilities began.