Chemical Attack
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Bagheri remembers victims of Sardasht chemical bombing
TEHRAN, Jun. 30 (MNA) – Acting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri honored the memory of those killed in chemical attacks on the country’s northwestern city of Sardasht four decades ago.
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Iran FM spox:
Halabja tragedy bitter example of West double standards on HR
TEHRAN, Mar. 15 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani says the tragedy of the deadly chemical attack on the Iraqi city of Halabja in 1988 is a bitter example of the West's double standard policies on human rights.
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Dutch court rules in favor of Iranian chemical attack victims
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) – A Dutch court has ruled that a company must pay compensation to five Iranian victims of chemical weapons attacks by Iraq in the 1980s, according to the office for legal affairs in the Iranian Presidency.
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Syria condemns France, US statements over chemical arms use
TEHRAN, Aug. 26 (MNA) – Syria condemned Washington and Paris for making statements reiterating false accusations about the use of chemical weapons in 2013 and other fabricated and forged incidents.
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Amir-Abdollahian meets Japanese foreign, health ministers
TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held talks with his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi on Monday in Tokyo.
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Amir-Abdollahian:
Iran not to forgive Sardasht chemical attack perpetrators
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says that Iran will neither forget nor forgive the perpetrators of the Sardasht chemical attack.
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HR Cheif:
130,000 chemical victims result of arming Saddam regime
TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) – 13,000 martyrs and 130,000 chemical victims in Iran are the result of arming Saddam's regime with chemical weapons by Western countries, Iran’s top human rights official says.
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Iran UN envoy:
Using chemical weapons crime against humanity
TEHRAN, Mar. 07 (MNA) – Saying that using chemical weapons is a crime against humanity, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations stressed that the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemns using such weapons.
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Syria rejects OPCW report on alleged 2018 chemical attack
TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) – The Syrian foreign ministry has categorically rejected a report by the chemical weapons watchdog, accusing Damascus of an alleged 2018 chemical attack against its own people.
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Iran urges punishing accomplices in Sardasht chemical attack
TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) – Iran's envoy in Geneva called for identifying and punishing the accomplices in Saddam Hussein’s war crimes against Iranians carried out through chemical weapons.
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Fake chemical attack plotted on Assad's inauguration in Idlib
TEHRAN, Jul. 17 (MNA) – Terrorists are plotting a fake chemical attack in the Idlib de-escalation zone on the day of the Syrian president’s inauguration, a Russian official said.