While the EU, including Spain, welcomed the ceasefire announced earlier this week, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez criticized the U.S.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Spanish government won’t applaud those that set the world on fire simply because they turn up with a bucket,\u201d Sanchez wrote on his X account.<\/p>\n
The Strait of Hormuz remained closed and Israel launched fresh attacks on Lebanon on Friday, which america and Iran each flagged as violations of their ceasefire deal on the eve of their first peace talks over the war.<\/p>\n
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U.S. Vice-President JD Vance, who will lead the U.S. delegation, set off for the talks in Pakistan, saying he expected a positive end result, but \u201cin the event that they\u2019re going to attempt to play us, then they\u2019re going to seek out the negotiating team shouldn’t be that receptive.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2-day-old ceasefire has halted the campaign of U.S. and Israeli air strikes on Iran. However it has up to now done nothing to finish the blockade of the strait, which has caused the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies, or to calm a parallel war waged by Israel against Iran\u2019s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
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