chemical weapons
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Passage of time doesn’t diminish gravity of Halabja chemical attack: Foreign Ministry
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei says the chemical attack was facilitated by technical and technological support from the United States and several European countries.
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Iran urges OPCW to probe Israel's chemical weapons use in Gaza, Lebanon
London, IRNA - Iran's Deputy Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi has urged the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, Netherlands, to investigate the employment of chemical and other banned weapons by the Zionist regime in Palestine and Lebanon.
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‘Iran concerned about threat of terrorist groups acquiring chemical weapons’
New York, IRNA - Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York Amir Saied Iravani has said that the Islamic Republic is deeply concerned about the threat posed by terrorist groups acquiring chemical weapons, emphasizing the urgent need for stronger international cooperation to confront the danger to global peace and security.
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‘Sanctioning states provided Iran’s enemy with chemical weapons’
Tehran, IRNA –President-Elect Masoud Pezeshkian has said that the countries that impose sanctions on the people of Iran under false pretexts were the ones that delivered chemical weapons to the enemy of the Islamic Republic.
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Iran among countries actively working to eliminate chemical weapons: Acting FM
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.
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‘Serving justice for Iranian victims of chemical attacks not subject to passage of time’
Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has said that international courts should exercise their responsibility to hold to account the perpetrators behind a 1987 chemical attack in the Iranian city of Sardasht, stressing that the issue is not subject to the passage of time.