Translate the following English sentence to French:
"The reasons for this are twofold: the continued dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and his oppression of Iraq's citizens and the continued imposition of sanctions of the most Draconian kind."
La raison en est double : la poursuite de la dictature de Saddam Hussein et de l'oppression qu'il exerce sur le peuple irakien, ainsi que la poursuite des sanctions des plus draconiennes.