Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday stressed Spain was a “reliable member” of NATO, after a report the United States was considering trying to suspend it over its refusal to support military operations against Iran. The Reuters news agency cited an anonymous U.S. official as telling it that the Pentagon had outlined the suspension option in an email looking at ways to punish NATO allies that steered clear of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
Sanchez has repeatedly found himself in Trump’s crosshairs since the Republican president returned to office in January 2025. Last year, he refused to agree to ramp up NATO defence spending to 5% of GDP as demanded by Trump, who then suggested expelling Spain from the alliance. Sanchez condemned the U.S. military intervention in Venezuela on Jan. 3 that captured the South American country’s strongman socialist president Nicolas Maduro and is a virulent critic of Washington’s ally Israel. NATO is to hold its next summit in Turkey on July 7-8.
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