REUTERS, Madrid

Fifteen US aircraft have left the Rota and Moron military bases in southern Spain since the US and Israel launched weekend attacks on Iran, maps by flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed yesterday.

Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said Spain would not allow its military bases to be used for attacks on Iran, which Spain has condemned.

Seven of the aircraft were shown on FlightRadar24 as having landed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

Britain had also initially refused to allow the use of its bases for an attack on Iran, but on Sunday Prime Minister Keir Starmer authorised their use for “collective self-defence”.

Spain’s condemnation of the US-Israeli actions in Iran by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez once again make it an outlier in the region, potentially straining its relationship with Washington further.