Iran Refutes Accusations of Breaching Chemical Weapons Treaty
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Tehran, Nov 30 (NationPress) Iran's permanent mission to the UN in New York has strongly denied allegations that the country has violated the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), as reported by the official news agency IRNA.
The Institute for the Study of War, a think tank focused on US national security, claimed that Iran has been concentrating on methods to create and deploy pharmaceutical-based chemical agents for military purposes, based on a report from the US Institute for Science and International Security dated November 26, as reported by the Xinhua news agency.
In response to these accusations, the Iranian diplomatic mission stated on Thursday via the social media platform X that Iran is a responsible signatory of the CWC, which categorically prohibits the development, production, and stockpiling of chemical weapons, claiming that "over the past several decades, not a single instance of Iranian violation has been recorded."
The mission denounced the allegations as "unfounded" and as "merely an extension of psychological warfare propagated by the Zionist regime (Israel) following its recent setback on the Lebanese front."
