Pedro Sanchez has avoided an Iranian newspaper’s list of 13 foreign leaders described as targets for revenge following the killing of the country’s former Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
The hardline Hamshahri published an infographic online over the weekend featuring photographs of senior Western political figures alongside a statement from Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, vowing retaliation for his father’s death.
Among those pictured are US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The list also includes US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, along with several other Western leaders.
Notably absent is the Spanish prime minister, who was one of Europe’s most outspoken critics of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran earlier this year.
Sanchez repeatedly called for de-escalation during the conflict and criticised the military action against Iran – although he also condemned some of the attacks carried out by the Iranian regime.
According to reports, the infographic appeared online late on Saturday but did not feature in Hamshahri’s Sunday print edition.
The publication follows a statement by Mojtaba Khamenei declaring that revenge for his father’s killing was ‘the will of our nation and must inevitably be carried out.’
The accompanying graphic reportedly warned that those named ‘will take to their graves the wish of a peaceful death in their beds.’
