Skripals’ recovery busts British lies against Russia, Syria & others

The diplomatic row is already kicked up by the British government between Russia and the West on the alleged poisoning of a former double agent .

The diplomatic row kicked up by the British regime between Russia and the West on the alleged poisoning of a former double agent, has caught London on the wrong foot following reports of improving health of the said person, and once again exposed the UK as an imperialist liar.

The viewpoint in this regard appeared in Kayhan International on Sunday, April 8 titled: “Skripals’ Recovery busts British lies against Russia, Syria & others.”

The rapid recovery of ex-Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, on the heels of his daughter Yulia’s waking up from supposed coma at Salisbury Hospital, has made a laughing stock of London, which by accusing Moscow of poisoning the two to definite death through a deadly military-grade novichock nerve agent for which no antidote is available, had expelled Russian diplomats from Britain, thereby setting in motion a diplomatic row of tit-for-tat expulsions between the Kremlin and several western regimes.

If the UK is to be believed, Sergey and Yulia, along with police detective Nick Bailey, were poisoned by novichock nerve agent, from which no recovery is possible. But now, after changing several times the official version of the supposed poisoning, the visibly embarrassed regime of Premier Theresa May fails to explain how the expected death of the three in minutes – if not in hours, days, and weeks – did not happen.

On March 4, Sergei, who had been convicted in Russia in 2004 of spying for Britain and sentenced to 13 years imprisonment and later swapped for Russian intelligence officers detained in the UK, was rushed to hospital from his home in Salisbury, along with Yulia, who had come from Moscow, on claims of being fatally poisoned by Russia.

Moscow, which rejected London’s accusations, saying no such project had ever existed in either the erstwhile Soviet Union or in the present Russian Federation for developing this a lethal substance, said that Skripal, whether alive or dead, was not worth anything to the Kremlin anymore; and if he were still in Russia, he would have already completed his 13-year prison sentence for treason and released.

Kayhan International said: It was obvious from the start that Britain was resorting to preposterous lies so as to find an excuse to kick up tensions with Russia, following failure of the Anglo-American plot of regime change in Syria, and also to distract attention from the criminal support of both London and Washington for the state terrorism of Saudi Arabia in Yemen.

This was the reason London shamelessly changed several times the official version of the supposed poisoning.

First it said father and daughter were poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent while eating lunch at a Salisbury restaurant.

It then said Yulia unwittingly transported the nerve agent planted in her luggage on her flight from Moscow to London.

Next it alleged that the deadly toxin was smeared on the handle of Skripal’s car, thus poisoning Sergei and Yulia.

It quickly changed the handle version to claim that the supposed nerve agent was possibly in aerosolized form and affected father and daughter through the vehicle’s ventilation system.

London’s latest official version claims the alleged nerve agent was smeared on the front door of Skripal’s home.
Kayhan International wrote: As observers point out, if there was any substance in these accounts of the British regime, the Skripals, Bailey and many others allegedly exposed to novichok would have long been dead.

It said: Today, over a month later no one has died, and with the sheepish admission by the British regime that Bailey has been discharged and the father and daughter are rapidly recovering, the military-grade poisoning claim has turned out to be a bald-faced lie.

It is now crystal clear that the real motive was to escalate tensions as a form of pressure tactics against Moscow by expelling 23 Russian diplomats and threatening other measures.

In response, Moscow took tit-for-tat steps by expelling the same number of British diplomats from Russia and ordering the closure of the British Consulate-General in St. Petersburg, in addition to shutting down the British Council’s offices in Russia.

It is to be noted that the Skripal incident will not be the last attempt by the British regime, either against Russia or any other independent country, including the legal government of Syria, which time and again, without the least evidence, has been accused by both London and Washington of using chemical weapons against the western-backed terrorists, who ironically have been supplied dangerous toxins for use against civilians by Britain, the US, Saudi Arabia, and the Zionist entity.

The UK, US, and certain other western regimes have also a history of lies, accusations, and propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran, for refusing to follow their dictates.

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