Shurat HaDin has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court in The Hague against Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, alleging that Spain aided the Iranian regime by transferring dual-use explosive-related components in 2024 and 2025 worth 1.3 million euros.
The complaint was submitted to the ICC prosecutor under Article 15 of the Rome Statute, calling for the examination of criminal proceedings against Sanchez and other senior officials. According to the filing, the materials were not harmless industrial products but critical components enabling explosive devices to function, and they were transferred under circumstances in which their use in attacks against civilians was foreseeable and likely.
The complaint is based on the legal argument that anyone supplying an essential component that makes a weapon operational may be considered to have aided the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity. It states that Iran has for years armed terrorist organizations and local proxies, including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, which rely on such explosive systems and on rockets fired at civilian populations.
At the center of the organization's claims is the assertion that Spain, while publicly and repeatedly criticizing Israel, while also restricting access to US bases and distancing Israeli diplomats, in practice supplied components required by the regime in Tehran and its proxies for military purposes.
According to Shurat HaDin, opposition leaders in Spain warned that the Spanish prime minister's conduct was helping Iran in its war effort and giving it political backing. They said it was placing Spain in the same camp as Iran. In addition, media outlets identified with the Iranian regime circulated images of ballistic missiles bearing stickers with Sanchez's picture and the words, "Thank you, Prime Minister."
From the organization's perspective, this was not merely a symbolic detail, but an indication that Iran itself viewed the Spanish prime minister's statements and policies as both diplomatic and practical support, and that the dual-use components supplied were indeed used in Iran's military buildup.
Shurat HaDin President Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said: "When a prime minister allows, directly or indirectly, the transfer of components that strengthen the Iranian regime's terror machine, he can no longer present himself as acting in the name of human rights. You cannot condemn Israel in the international stage while at the same time helping a regime that arms terrorist organizations and attacks innocent civilians. Responsibility for war crimes does not stop with the person who pulls the trigger, but also extends to those who provide the means that make the shooting possible."
