Kan'ani made the remarks in a post on his official X account on Friday on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the chemical attack on Halabja by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Marking the anniversary of the Baath regime's "brutal attack" against the "defenseless" people of Halabja, he said it was the day "when the fate of a city was decided in a few seconds and more than ten thousand people died due to inhalation of poisonous and forbidden gas".
"Reflecting on the tragedy of Halabja within the scope of history becomes particularly more poignant when we recall that the Iraqi Baath regime acquired the ability to produce gas and chemical bombs with the help of some European countries," he said, noting that the regime repeatedly used them during the 1980-1988 imposed war on Iran despite the prohibition of using such inhumane weapons.
He slammed the "hypocritical and unfair" behavior of some Western countries and Saddam's supporters towards the use of chemical weapons.
"According to reports published by the United Nations, Saddam's regime has used chemical weapons more than 350 times during the war with the Islamic Republic of Iran," Kanaani emphasized.
On March 16, 1988, Saddam Hussein's regime used chemical weapons in Halabja, home to Iraqi Kurds, who had joined with Iran in fighting Saddam. According to reports, 5,000 people, mainly women and children, were killed of mustard gas and sarin poisoning, and up to 12,000 have died since because of chemical exposure.
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