Iran Press/Iran news: Iran has shown that it is not a warmongering country, yet it is brave and thanks to the resistance of its people will be victorious, even under the most intense pressures, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi asserted.
Mousavi who has gone to West Azerbaijan Province, northwest of Iran, to commemorate the victims of chemical weapons in Sardasht, massacred by the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam. Saddam, with the help of US and European countries, acquired chemical weapons and used them extensively against neighbouring Iran, as well as his own population in Iraqi Kurdistan.
June 28 is the anniversary of the Iraqi Ba'athist regime's chemical attack on Sardasht, a city in West Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran.
Saddam's army carried out a chemical bombardment in Sardash on June 28, 1987, killing 119 people and injuring over 8000 others.
Saddam's repeated use of internationally-banned chemical weapons against Iran, have left their mark, even today, decades after their use.
The use of chemical weapons is against the Geneva Protocol, yet the United Nations and the security council, acted belatedly, and failed to unequivocally condemn Saddam's use of these deadly weapons, showing double standards.
The documents published towards the end of the Iraqi war imposed on Iran revealed that a total of 207 mostly Western companies, mainly from US, Netherlands, Germany, and France enabled Saddam's Baathist regime to acquire chemical weapons, supplying it with essential chemicals and equipment to manufacture such weapons. 215/211/213
