Iran, Sanchez: «Spain’s place is easy: no to conflict» | EUROtoday

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«Spain’s place may be summed up in just a few phrases: no to conflict». This is what the president of the Spanish authorities stated, Pedro Sanchezin an institutional assertion from the Moncloa Palace, within the aftermath of the US president’s threats Donald Trump to interrupt industrial relations with Madrid for the refusal to authorize the usage of the joint bases of Moron e Rotain Andalucia, within the Israeli-American operation towards theIran.

“The question is whether we are on the side of international legality and, therefore, of peace,” the Spanish prime minister additionally stated in demanding “a diplomatic and political solution” to the conflicts within the Middle East.

«This disaster impacts us and we demand all decision from the United States, Iran and Israel in order that hostilities stop earlier than it’s too late”, continued the Spanish Prime Minister, warning that Madrid “won’t be complicit in one thing dangerous to the world”, such as the conflict with Tehran, “only for the worry of reprisals from some”. The reference was evidently to «The Donald».

The war in Iraq of 2003 “has led to a more insecure world and a worse life” and the current conflict between the United States and Israel with Iran “will not lead to a more just international order, nor higher wages, nor better public services, nor a healthier environment,” Sanchez explained. «The world, Europe and Spain have already been through this», he stated, recalling that «23 years ago the United States dragged us into a war to eliminate weapons of mass destruction Saddam Husseinto bring democracy and ensure global security. In reality it produced the opposite effect.”

According to Sanchez, that battle prompted “insecurity, a rise in jihadist terrorism and a rise in vitality costs. That was the reward of the Azorean trio: a extra insecure world and a worse life,” he said. “It is simply too early to know whether or not the conflict in Iran can have related penalties”, the socialist leader also noted, but he said he was certain that “a extra simply worldwide order won’t emerge from it”.