Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to inflict on Lebanon “the same level of damage and destruction” that Israeli forces inflicted on the Gaza Strip. Sanchez, who appeared before the House of Representatives to explain his government's position against the US-Israeli war on Iran, pointed out that the new supreme leader of Iran is more stringent than his predecessor. “Mojtaba Khamenei is just as dictatorial and even more bloodthirsty than his father,” he said.