Spain closes off its airspace to US planes involved in Iran war

MADRID — Spain closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war, officials said Monday, in another step by Europe’s loudest critic of U.S. and Israeli military actions in the monthlong conflict. The country earlier said that the U.S. couldn’t use jointly operated military bases in the war, which Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has described as illegal, reckless and unjust. Defense Minister Margarita Robles said that the same logic applied to the use of Spanish airspace. “This was made perfectly clear to the American military and forces from the very beginning. Therefore, neither the bases are authorized, nor, of course, is the use of Spanish airspace authorized for any actions related to the war in Iran,” Robles told reporters, describing the conflict as “profoundly illegal and profoundly unjust.” Sánchez has called on the U.S., Israel and Iran to end the war. “You cannot respond to one illegality with another, because that’s how humanity’s great disasters begin,” he said earlier this month. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Spain’s leaders are “b

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