European legislator: Sanctions against Iran, Iraq and Syria are crimes against humanity.
The representative of the Republic of Ireland in the European Parliament criticized the former US Secretary of State as a “war criminal”, criticizing Washington’s policy of imposing sanctions on its opponents.
European Parliament lawmaker Mick Wallace said imposing US sanctions on various countries, including Iran, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela and Cuba, was a crime against humanity.
Referring to the funeral of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Wallace tweeted Thursday morning: “Sanctions against Iraq, which war criminal Madeleine Albright believed was worth [killing Iraqi children], were a mass punishment against the Iraqi people. ».
“[Sanctions against Iraq] killed 500,000 children – it was a crime against humanity – just like today’s sanctions against Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Cuba, Afghanistan,” he said, citing other countries that have been subjected to harsh US sanctions. “And there are other countries.”
Albright, 84, died of cancer on March 23, 2022. (More details)
He was a key figure in the administration of former US President Bill Clinton, who first served as US ambassador to the United Nations and later served as a senior diplomat during his second term.
Albright, who advocated NATO expansion, advocated for the deaths of Iraqi children as a result of Washington sanctions in an interview with Sibyas in May 1996, when she was US Representative to the United Nations.
