Madrid Protesters Condemn US-Israeli War against Iran
About 4,000 people in the Spanish capital protested the aggressive war against Iran with the slogan “No to War” and called for peace and an end to the tension in the Middle East, El Diario reported.
In a demonstration organized by the Madrid International Forum and held in some of the main streets of the Spanish capital, demonstrators carried numerous banners, most of which read No to War.
Participants in the rally chanted slogans against the war in Iran and the intervention of US President Donald Trump, as well as slogans against fascists.
Irene Montero, a member of the European Parliament from the Spanish Podemos party, attended the protest rally and called on the government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and for American forces to leave the Spanish bases of Rota (Cadiz) and Morón de la Frontera (Seville).
“As long as we are in NATO, whether we like it or not, we are at war; as long as American forces are in Spanish bases, whether we like it or not, we are complicit in the crimes of Donald Trump and (Israeli regime’s prime minister Benjamin) Netanyahu,” Montero said.
Last week, thousands of people in Madrid and other Spanish cities, along with figures from the world of culture and politics, took part in protests and demanded an end to the war in Iran.
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A few days before this series of demonstrations, the Spanish prime minister announced that he would not allow the United States to use the bases in Rota and Morón for offensive operations against Iran. This decision created diplomatic tensions between Madrid and Washington and even led to economic threats.
In a statement, Sanchez summed up the government’s position in just a few words: no to war.
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