Spanish PM։ Twenty-three years ago, another US administration dragged us into a war in the Middle East

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has compared the current conflict around Iran to the 2003 Iraq War․

"Twenty-three years ago, another US administration dragged us into a war in the Middle East. A war that, in theory, it was said at the time, was being fought to eliminate Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, bring democracy and ensure global security.

But which in reality, seen in perspective, produced the opposite effect, it unleashed the greatest wave of insecurity that our continent has suffered since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Iraq War generated a drastic increase in jihadist terrorism, a serious migration crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and a generalized increase in energy prices", he said.