The President of the Government appears in Congress to explain the Spanish position regarding the war in Iran. His intervention has begun by recalling February 15, 2003, when a pacifist demonstration marched through the streets of Spain against the American intervention against Iraq. In that "illegal war" more than 300,000 people died, Sánchez has said before stating that "forgetting is the first step to committing the same mistake".
The president has continued enumerating the consequences of all kinds that that conflict brought and has pointed to former president Aznar for his support for that war. Sánchez has also recalled that while the presidents of the US and the United Kingdom, Bush and Blair, asked for forgiveness for that war, "Aznar has said that he regrets nothing", calling into question the "moral character" of the former Spanish president.
Speaking about Iran, Sánchez has concluded that it is a much larger and more powerful country than that Iraq of 2003 and that we are facing a much worse conflict, going on to question the imminent danger of nuclear weapons use posed by the Iranian regime, a reason put forward by Israel and the US to initiate the attack against Iran "without warning" anyone about what it was going to do. "The White House stated that it did so because Iran was two weeks away from having the nuclear bomb," Sánchez has said, something that the Spanish president has affirmed that all indications say is not so.
"What is all this destruction serving for, what have been the consequences of this first month of war?". Upon raising these questions, Sánchez has been enumerating dead, economic and social consequences of all kinds. Spanish companies have lost more than 100,000 million euros in one month."
"This is an absolute disaster and this is what the war promoters have achieved to date. And this is what you have contributed to, gentlemen of the PP and Vox, with your support or your silence," Sánchez has said.
The Spanish president has proclaimed: "We are a sovereign country that does not want to participate in illegal wars." Subsequently, he has explained the measures adopted by his Government to try to mitigate the consequences in Spain of the conflict in the Middle East and has boasted of having deployed the largest social shield of all those that have been activated in any country to curb the aforementioned effects.
Sánchez has also recalled that, contrary to what the Government has done, in 2003 the Aznar and PP Executive did not activate any protection aid for the Spanish population.