13,000 Iranians martyred by West's chemical arms supplied to Saddam: Gharibabadi
Human rights official has deplored the European Parliament's resolution over the suspected poisoning of some students in Iranian schools, emphasizing that thousands of Iranians lost their lives as a result of the West's chemical weapons supplied to the deposed Ba'ath regime of Iraq during the imposed war on Iran.
Kazem Gharibabadi, Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and the Judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs, made the remarks in a post published on his Twitter page.
“The upshot of supply of chemical warfare by Germany, the United States, France, Britain and the Netherlands to [executed Iraqi dictator] Saddam: 13,000 civilian deaths and 130,000 chemical victims in Iran,” he tweeted.
Gharibabadi noted that the June 1987 chemical attack on the western Iranian city of Sardasht martyred over a hundred civilians and injured another 8,000 people.
The chemical bombardment of Halabja town in the Kurdistan region also left some 5,000 civilians dead and around 10,000 others injured, the judiciary official said.
“For the attention of the so-called advocates of human rights: This is also a crime against humanity. Please, deal with it!” Gharibabadi pointed out.
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