Israeli attack on Gaza Strip an “indirect” use of “chemical weapons”
A prominent rights group has released the findings of its investigation into a “deliberate” Israeli attack on a warehouse storing agricultural and pharmaceutical products amounting to the “indirect deploying of chemical weapons.”
US chemical weapons a threat to international peace, security
Gholamhossein Dehghani, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, has addressed the Twenty-Fourth Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Zarif derides US, Israeli claims on opposing weapons of mass destruction
Foreign Minister Zarif says the US and Israeli regime, with their huge arsenal of chemical and nuclear weapons, have no right to call themselves leading countries in combating weapons of mass destruction.
Moscow worried about possible chemical provocations by terrorists in Syria
Russian Foreign Ministry expressed worry about information on possible chemical provocations by terrorist groups in Syria in order to accuse the Syrian Arab army. Russian TASS news agency quoted the ministry as saying “alarming reports are coming from various sources that some terrorist and extremist groups in Syria never stop attempts at staging large-scale provocations […]