Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is now demanding that the European Union suspend its association agreement with Israel. Jerusalem should welcome the move with open arms, but only on one firm condition: the suspension must remain until Spain ends its total arms embargo on the Jewish State and halts all military-adjacent support for Iran.

The 1995 association agreement supports over €42.6 billion in annual two-way trade. Irrationally, Sánchez’s call, backed by a petition signed by one million Europeans, accuses Israel of “violating humanitarian clauses”.

Yet, the hypocrisy runs deep.

Spanish trade records show that between 2024 and the first half of 2025, Madrid approved more than €1.3 million in dual-use exports to Iran, including detonators, explosives of types A, B, and E, chemical reagents, control software, and high-precision computer numerical control lathes, milling machines, and machining centers (nearly 70% went to Iranian state-linked firms tied to missile and drone programs).

Since Sánchez took power in 2018, Spain has authorized roughly $7 million in such dual-use technologies with clear military value. In 2024 alone, defense-related exports to Iran hit $198.72 million. Due to this, an Israeli legal group -right after my first article on this issue was published on the Middle East Forum- filed a formal........

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