Tehran, IRNA — Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei says the passage of time does not diminish the heinousness of chemical bombings.
On the 37th anniversary of the chemical bombing of Halabja, Baqaei took to his social media account on X on Sunday to commemorate the tragic event.
Halabja is home to Iraqi Kurds, who had joined forces with Iran to fight the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1989 war.
The attack, Baqaei said, was facilitated by technical and technological support from the United States and several European countries.
Tens of thousands of innocent civilians were killed or suffered lifelong injuries due to this heinous war crime, he added.
Baqaei also highlighted the shared suffering of Iranians, particularly those in Sardasht, as well as many Iranian military and civilian victims of Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons attacks during the eight-year imposed war on Iran.
He stressed that truth and justice remain the enduring demands of the survivors of chemical weapon attacks under Saddam’s regime.
Additionally, he criticized European countries for their role in those attacks by supplying Iraq’s chemical weapons program. He said their unwillingness to acknowledge the truth and take responsibility undermines their credibility in matters of human rights and the rule of law.
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