Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani says that the Islamic Republic has always defended the elimination of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and is now among the most active countries to work for a world free of chemical weapons.
New York, IRNA – Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani has said that the Iranian people will never forget how some Western states helped toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime in its systematic use of chemical weapons against Iranians during the imposed war in the 1980s.