Russia: Washington’s lie and its crime in Iraq does not fall under the statute of limitations

Speaker of the Russian Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko, called for not forgetting the issue of the “Colin Powell test tube” that Washington launched 20 years ago to invade Iraq, stressing that the crime does not fall under the statute of limitations.

“I think it would be correct to raise the issue again about the heinous lie that led to a clearly terrible disaster in the near future at the United Nations, where the development of these events began 20 years ago,” Matviyenko was quoted by the Novosti agency as saying on the Telegram website.

Matviyenko pointed out that this crime must remain in the memory of humanity and work to prevent the erasure of the truth about those events, and not to allow those who took these decisions and laid plans to escape from the court of history, and their names are known.

She noted that the air strikes on Iraq could be compared in terms of their consequences to the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

She emphasized that deliberate lying led to the destruction of an independent state and its ancient historical monuments, and caused the most difficult humanitarian crisis in the region. She underlined the need to remind the whole world and the United Nations of what can happen when someone declares their exclusive rights, builds a unipolar system and brazenly interferes in the affairs of the other countries and trusts his complete impunity.

Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on February 5, 2003, during a session of the UN Security Council, that Iraq possessed the technology to produce biological weapons, and showed a test tube with white powder to justify the US invasion, before he later admitted that he showed a fake test tube to convince the world of its authenticity.

Inas Abdulkareem