Araghchi: Tehran pursues chemical weapons victims rights in Iran and Iraq

Pars Today – The Iranian Foreign Minister emphasized that Western countries must be held accountable for supplying chemical weapons.

The Iranian Foreign Minister has traveled to The Hague, Netherlands, to participate in the 30th Meeting of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention. During this international event, Araghchi will present the positions and viewpoints of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the conference agenda through a speech.

This conference, titled the “Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention” (CSP), is held annually in The Hague, Netherlands, and serves as one of the main global and legal pillars in the field of chemical weapons prohibition.

According to Pars Today, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s Foreign Minister, said on Wednesday on the sidelines of the 30th Meeting of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention in The Hague that Western companies played a role in supplying chemical materials to the Iraqi dictator Saddam. He emphasized that Western countries must be held accountable for providing chemical weapons and that Tehran is pursuing the rights of victims of these weapons in Iran and Iraq.

Araghchi, criticizing incomplete investigations and limited trials in some Western countries against suppliers of chemical materials to Saddam’s regime, added that this issue is on the agenda of the Iranian government to hold responsible parties accountable and ensure compensation for the victims.

The Iranian Foreign Minister also described the United States’ unilateral sanctions on Iran as an obstacle to chemical victims’ access to medicine. He added that these sanctions, in addition to harming the Iranian people, prevent chemical victims from obtaining necessary treatments, and called on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to address this issue.

Araghchi further referred to attacks on Iran’s peaceful nuclear and chemical facilities, warning that such attacks pose a risk of spreading chemical and radioactive materials, which threaten human life and the environment and may not be confined to Iran’s borders.