Tag: Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)

Permanent Representation of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has held the US government accountable for the lack of full implementation of chemical disarmament due to its failure to destroy its stockpile of chemical weapons.

Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been elected as one of the vice-chairs of the Executive Council of the OPCW.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Gholam-Hossein Dehqani and Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Fernando Arias have discussed the ways to promote cooperation between Tehran and the OPCW.

Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Oleg Ryazantsev has held talks with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Gholam-Hossein Dehqani in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Gholam-Hossein Dehqani says the United States’ chemical weapons pose a threat to international peace and security.

Iran has urged the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to find a solution to help Iranian victims of chemical attacks regain their access to medicine, which has been hampered by the US sanctions.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has dismissed the latest claim by US President Donald Trump that he stopped an attack on Iran because 150 people would have died, saying the US has already killed several generations with its chemical weapons.

Alireza Kazemi Abadi, Iran’s Ambassador to the Netherlands and the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), has been elected as Deputy Executive Councilor of the organisation.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has recalled the massacre of Iraqi Kurds at the hands of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hossein in a chemical attack on March 16, 1988, saying Western governments would fail in their attempts to whitewash the incident.

A senior Iranian lawmaker has warned about the US plan to sell nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia, suggesting that the Israeli regime could be eliminated by the Saudi nuclear bombs.