The Secret Behind the Sanctions: How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply

This article from the 2001 issue of the Progressive explains how the United States used sanctions to degrade the Iraqi water supply after the first Gulf War in violation of the Geneva convention, and to the detriment of children and civilians. One wonders if the Pentagon has done a similar analysis of the effect of Iranian sanction they are now promoting so vociferously. I'm betting that they have.

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Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in IRAN

CASMII Fact Sheet on US-Iran Standoff

Introduction

The current U.S. standoff against Iran, like the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was instigated by the neoconservatives of the Bush Administration based on their doctrine of “maintaining U.S. pre-eminence, thwarting rival powers and shaping the global security system according to U.S. interests”. In the case of Saddam’s regime, its fictitious Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and its alleged links to Al-Qaida were used in the U.S. propaganda war to first impose U.N. sanctions and eventually invade Iraq. We now have a déjà vu situation in which the U.S. and its allies, prodded by Israel, demonize Iran as a threat to world security and accuse it of having a program to develop nuclear weapons. As with Iraq, the real aim is a regime change in Iran to set up a U.S. puppet government in this oil- and gas-rich country in the key strategic Persian Gulf region. This has also happened before in the 1953 U.S.-British coup in Iran. The same forces in U.S., U.K., Israel and allies today distort the truth and engage in deceit, coercion and aggression to achieve their goals. We will briefly examine some of the key facts in the standoff.  

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