Alberto Núñez Feijóo spoke his first words this Saturday at four in the afternoon after the massive attack by the United States and Israel on Iran to overthrow the regime. “The Iranian regime,” he wrote on his X profile, where he has 250,000 followers, “massacres its own citizens, pursues the nuclear bomb, finances terror and destabilizes the region.”
The Iranian regime massacres its own citizens, pursues the nuclear bomb, finances terror and destabilizes the region. No democrat can be condescending to this because freedom is defended throughout the world.
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— Alberto Núñez Feijóo (@NunezFeijoo) February 28, 2026
24 hours later, the leader of the PP has once again spoken out in a much more forceful manner and in a line totally contrary to that of Pedro Sánchez, who also rejected the intervention this Saturday and also in X, and warned of “an escalation” and a “more uncertain international order.”
Feijóo published a statement this Sunday with six points. “The world is better when a tyrant falls,” he has written. “In Iran, for decades, the ayatollahs have sustained a regime of repression and constant threat. Millions of citizens have suffered persecution, prison and death for defending basic freedoms. And it has been Iranian women who, with admirable determination, have led the resistance against that oppression. The fall of such a system is good news for freedom and democracy.”
The leader of the Popular Party also warned this Sunday that the international order “suffers” when a regime like the Iranian one “converts terror and destabilization into instruments of foreign policy.”
Feijóo has demanded moral “clarity” from European leaders. “Know who threatens freedom and who defends it,” he said, while defending that human rights must be a “permanent” criterion in Spain’s foreign action. “No exceptions, no tactical calculations and no interested silences. Those who have remained silent in the face of systematic repression in Iran are not in a position to give lessons.”
He has also asked the Sánchez Government to be “without nuances” alongside the liberal democracies. “Something is wrong when Hamas, the Houthis and the Iranian regime applaud the Government. That is not defending Spain’s interests, but putting them at risk. Let us live up to that responsibility. With freedom or with tyrants.”
