The president of Madrid has launched a scathing attack on Spain’s Socialist government for its response to the Iran war amid an escalating feud with Donald Trump. Isabel Díaz Ayuso called Pedro Sánchez a “rebellious teenage leader” for his party’s “no to war” stance on the conflict.

In a Madrid Assembly session on Thursday, Ms Ayuso tore into Mr Sánchez’s centre-left Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), saying: “Of course, no to war, and may it end as soon as possible, but also no to the Spanish civil war that [the PSOE] fuels every day.” Members of the PSOE in the Assembly reportedly wore stickers with the ‘No to war’ slogan rolled out by Mr Sánchez. In response to criticism from the opposition leader Manuela Bergerot, Ms Ayuso said: “I encourage [the left] to go out alone and drunk in Tehran. Or, for example, wear a miniskirt in Kabul.

“Go for it. Go there and take your gay friends with you, and you’ll see how they’ll hang them from cranes, because that’s how they treat homosexuality and women in those dream countries you boast so much about.”

In response, according to Catalan newspaper Diari ARA, Ms Bergerot said: “The first condition for a woman to be free is that her country not be bombed.”

Mr Sánchez has emerged as one of Spain’s most vocal critics of Mr Trump.

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The US President has accused Spain of being “terrible” after refusing to allow the American military to stage operations for its attacks on Iran from Spanish military bases.

Mr Trump has said he would “cut off all trade with Spain”.

“We don’t want anything to do with Spain,” he added during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz earlier this week.

While denouncing the regime in Tehran, Mr Sánchez said he would not back a war that he said was an unjustified assault.

He said: “We are not going to be complicit in something that is bad for the world and is also contrary to our values and interests, just out of fear of reprisals from someone.”

The fighting in the Middle East has entered its seventh day.