Spain’s Sánchez Calls for Chinese Diplomacy to Solve Iran War

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during a press conference in Beijing, on April 14.

Photographer: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images

Spain called for Chinese intervention to help end the US-Israeli war with Iran, underscoring its fraught relations with the Trump administration.

“It seems very difficult to me to find other interlocutors who can untangle this situation caused in Iran and in the Strait of Hormuz beyond China,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said in Beijing after meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping.