{"id":247343,"date":"2026-03-25T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=247343"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:08:56","slug":"spains-pm-says-iran-war-represents-a-far-worse-scenario-than-iraqs-illegal-war-in-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/247343\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s PM says Iran war represents a \u2018far worse\u2019 scenario than Iraq\u2019s \u2018illegal war\u2019 in 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Spain&rsquo;s Prime Minister Pedro S&aacute;nchez warned on Wednesday that the Iran war represents a &ldquo;far worse&rdquo; scenario than the 2003 invasion of Iraq, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/03\/25\/spains-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez-warns-iran-war-far-worse-than-iraq-in-2003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is not the same scenario as the illegal war in Iraq. We are facing something far worse. Much worse. With a potential impact that is far broader and far deeper,&rdquo; S&aacute;nchez told parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This time, it&rsquo;s an absurd and illegal war. A cruel one that sets us back from achieving our economic, social and environmental goals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Spain&rsquo;s PM had <a href=\"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/240368\/\">refused<\/a> Washington&rsquo;s requests to use Madrid&rsquo;s military bases to launch strikes against Iran, despite US President Donald Trump&rsquo;s threat to sever trade with Spain as a result.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&rsquo;s Prime Minister Pedro S&aacute;nchez warned on Wednesday that the Iran war represents a &ldquo;far worse&rdquo; scenario than the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Euronews writes. &ldquo;This is not the same scenario as the illegal war in Iraq. We are facing something far worse. Much worse. With a potential impact that is far broader and far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":247093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247352,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247343\/revisions\/247352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}