Iran calls for OPCW probe of Saddam’s chemical weapons program

[sabra]

Source: Tehran Times

THE HAGUE -- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad-Ali Hosseini has called for the formation of a committee to investigate how the government of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein gained access to chemical weapons.

In a meeting on Tuesday in The Hague with the director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Rogelio Pfirter, Hosseini stated that Iran is prepared to hold international training courses in Tehran on the treatment of people injured by chemical weapons and calls on the OPCW to cooperate in this project.

Tens of thousands of Iranians were killed and wounded by chemical weapons during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. Around 100,000 Iranians are still living with the effects, which include long-term respiratory problems, eye and skin problems as well as immune system disorders, psychological disorders, genetic disorders, and probably cancers, according to niablog.wordpress.com.

The OPCW is the implementing body of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which is an arms control agreement that outlaws the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons.

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Hosseini criticized the international community for their near-total silence and indifference at the time of Saddam’s criminal use of chemical weapons against Iran and called for the formation of a committee to investigate how Saddam’s Baathist regime gained access to the weapons and to determine how to obtain reparations for the victims.

Read more: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=183901

[tabatha]

1. Pointing fingers at the US.

Maybe get Rumsfeld and cohorts to the Hague.

[Javaman]

2. expect some sort of bullshit smoke and mirror incident from moron*

to bury this.

[pinto]

3. Interesting interview with Rogelio Pfirter (via Armscontrol.org) -

http://www.armscontrol.org/interviews/20050923_Pfirter

[boomerbust]

4. Everybody knows

It was Ronnie and Poppy who supplied Saddam with these weapons of mass destruction.

[LaPera]

5. The fucking slimy republican Reagan admin. gave Hussein chemical weapons 1981 - 1988

The Iraqi invasion of Iran started less than two month's before Reagan was elected president (1980). Along with the slimy republican arms for hostages deal to get Reagan elected. And further down the line (1985) the slimy republican Iran-Contra deal.

Slimy republican; 'Reagan decided that the United States "could not afford to allow Iraq to lose the war to Iran", and that the United States "would do WHATEVER was necessary to prevent Iraq from losing the war with Iran'.

The slimy republicans were providing weapons for both sides of the war, for profit and control of the massive oil fields by weakening the region.

The slimy republicans finally got control of the Iraqi oil fields by illegally invading Iraq (2003) and the slimy republicans have been itching to bomb Iran to have more control of the oil there ever since (and still are).

[leveymg]

6. Follow the money: Google "Banco Lavoro BCCI Bush"

Start with this one (lots of great links): http://www.williambowles.info/bush/BCCI.htm