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Over the decades, sanctions have led to widespread suffering in nations such as Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iraq, and Syria. One of the most notorious cases is Iraq in the 1990s. Following the Gulf War, U.S.-led sanctions devastated Iraq’s economy, leading to shortages of essentials like water, electricity, and medicine. The result was a humanitarian catastrophe, with hundreds of thousands of children dying from preventable diseases—an outcome described by UN officials at the time as “genocidal.”