translate English to French: For that reason, certain States had looked for a new name for the sanctions, calling them “smart sanctions”, thus clearly implying that the sanctions that had been, and were continuing to be, applied against his country were stupid sanctions, from which hundreds of thousands of people had suffered.
Pour cette raison, certains États préconisent désormais l'imposition de sanctions qu'ils appellent « sanctions intelligentes », impliquant ainsi clairement que les sanctions qui ont été et sont toujours imposées à l'Iraq sont des sanctions stupides, dont souffrent des centaines de milliers de personnes.