chemical weapons
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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.
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Iran calls on int’l bodies to prevent proliferation, use of chemical weapons
Tehran, IRNA - Director General for International Peace and Security Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Assadollah Eshragh Jahromi has called on international societies to prevent the proliferation and use of chemical weapons in the world.
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Syria dismisses ‘false accusations’ by France, US over 2013 Ghouta attack
Tehran, IRNA -- Syria has condemned recent statements by France and the United States that repeated “false accusations” against the Arab country over a chemical attack on the outskirts of Damascus in 2013.
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Iran commemorates the injured of chemical weapons
A conference was held in Sardasht, the northwestern Iranian province of West Azarbaijan, on July 12, 2023, to commemorate those who were injured when Iraqi warplanes targeted the city of Sardasht on June 28, 1987, with chemical weapons. (IRNA photos/Ali Arsalani)
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Iran biggest victim of chemical weapons: Deputy FM
Tehran, IRNA - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs Reza Najafi has described the country as the biggest victim of chemical weapons in the world's contemporary history.
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‘Iranians won’t forget West assistance to Saddam regime in using chemical weapons against them’
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.
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Deputy FM: Drugs for chemical victims hardly found
London, IRNA – Deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs who is in Hague, the Netherlands, in a meeting with the director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) complained about the scarcity of medicine for chemical weapons victims in Iran.
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Iran neither forgives nor forgets perpetrators of chemical attacks
Tehran, IRNA – Iran as the biggest victim of the systemic use of chemical weapons in contemporary history will neither forgive nor forget perpetrators and sponsors of the crime, an Iranian diplomat said.
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Germany; supplier of chemical weapons or supporter of human rights
Tehran, IRNA – Germany’s Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) has ratified a plan under the guise of supporting human rights in order to put pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran, while the Iranian people have not yet forgotten Germany’s supply of Iraq’s Saddam Hussain regime with 6k chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war.
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Iran UN envoy urges ‘non-discriminatory’ implementation of Chemical Weapons Convention
New York, IRNA – Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi on Wednesday called for the “non-discriminatory” implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which is administered by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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Iran calls for punishing principals, accomplices in Iraq’s chemical attack on Iranians
London, IRNA – Iran's envoy in Geneva called for identifying and punishing the principals and accomplices in Saddam Hussein’s war crimes against Iranians carried out through chemical weapons.
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Chemical bombing of Sardasht shows Saddam regime's insolence: FM
Tehran, IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian wrote on Monday that the chemical bombing of Sardasht was the peak of Saddam's regime's insolence in the imposed war against Iran.
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FM: chemical weapons victims have difficulty accessing medicine due to US sanctions
Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, in a message, wrote that America’s unilateral and coercive sanctions have made it extremely difficult for Iranian chemical weapons victims to access medicine and medical supplies.
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Iranian chemical weapons victims write to the British Minister of Justice
Tehran, IRNA - Sardasht chemical weapons victims wrote a letter to the British Minister of Justice on Sunday.
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Rereading Iraq’s chemical attack on Sumar, Iran
Tehran, IRNA – The chemical attack on Sumar city in West Iran by the Iraqi army was one of the bitterest events during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war (Sep 22, 1980 – Aug 20, 1988), killing hundreds of defenseless people.
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Experts urge OPCW remove ambiguity in Syria report
Tehran, March 3, IRNA – A group of scientists and inspectors in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in a letter urged the agency to clarify its claims on the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria.
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Russia to US: Iran itself victim of chemical weapons
Moscow, Jan 11, IRNA – Russian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said in a twitter message in response to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday that the US claim is “something new” and that Iran itself was a victim of Saddam’s chemical weapons.
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UN Chief calls for honouring the victims of chemical warfare
Tehran, Nov 30, IRNA - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare, 30 November 2020, called for honouring the victims of chemical warfare by pledging to consign these dreadful weapons to the pages of history.
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Iran renews condemnation of use of chemical weapons
Tehran, Oct 9, IRNA - Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Majid Takht-Ravanchi on Friday renewed condemnation in the strongest possible terms the use of chemical weapons by anyone, anywhere, and under any circumstances.
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Iran critical of unfounded chemical attack allegations against Syrian Gov't
New York, Oct 6, IRNA - Iran’s Permanent Representative to United Nations said a statement that chemical attack has been unfounded allegations leveled against Syrian Government in the specialized debates of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations Security Council.