This past morning has reached the military base of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid) the second plane with Spanish citizens than the Foreign Ministry He has evacuated Iran and Israel due to the tension escalation between the two countries.
The first of the planes arrived on Friday night, as reported by the Ministry of Defense, whose head, Margarita Robleshe has gone to the airport to receive evacuated citizens and thanked the work of the military who have brought them to Spain.
One of the planes reached the military base from Jordan With the most numerous group, about 200 people, and the other from Armenia With another 40 Spaniards.
In a message posted in X the Ministry of Defense has reported the arrival of the planes and has specified that the minister has received Spanish citizens and “thanked, again, the work of the military.”
This Friday, about 200 people who were in Israel and wanted to leave the country due to the tension escalation with Iran crossed the border with Jordan in an operation organized by the Foreign Ministry after Thursday around 40 Spaniards who were in Iran were also evacuated from the country.
Of the 199 people who left Israel, 176 are Spanish and 23 of other nationalities (Canada, Chile, Croatia, USA, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Nicaragua and Portugal). All were in perfect condition, according to the same sources.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, He realized this evacuation operation in Israel as on Thursday night to explain the similar operation they have carried out in Iran.
With regard to the little more than 40 citizens of our country who left Iran have been transferred to Spain since Erevan (Armenian capital).
The departure of the Spaniards of these two countries has been carried out through buses that have transferred them, in the case of Iran, since Tehran to the Armenian border, while in Israel, the convoys left from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to the border with Jordan.
Albares has thanked the diplomatic services of Spain from Iran and Israel “The extraordinary work” they have done to guarantee everyone’s safety and that the two operations have been able to develop normally.
The new tension escalation has occurred because Israel attacked just a week a hundred objectives related to Iran’s nuclear program and other military points.
