Iran Press/ Iran news: The Leader made the remarks on Wednesday in a meeting with a group of war-time commanders, veterans and artists on the occasion of the Sacred Defense Week, marking the anniversary of the eight-year-imposed-war on Iran, reported Press TV.
In his remarks Ayatollah Khamenei said: "Despite the West's current ballyhoo over accusations of using chemical weapons, they provided Saddam's regime with deadly chemical weapons used not only in the war fronts but also against civilian populations in cities like Sardasht."
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The Leader said the Islamic Republic was under economic and political sanctions in those years, and the Iranian nation’s voice could not be heard in the world, because mainstream global media was (and is) controlled by Zionists."
Referring to French and German support for Saddam's regime during the war, the Leader said, “Why shouldn’t the French and German nations know what their governments did to the Iranian nation in those eight years?”
During the Iraqi-imposed war, "Iran was not even allowed to use the most basic equipment and facilities like barbed wires, while the other side was provided with the most modern war equipment and even chemical weapons,” he added.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranian people were killed in the eight-year war Saddam imposed on Iran and many more were affected by the chemical weapons like mustard gas used by the Iraqi regime.
Sardasht became only the third town or city in the world to be attacked by weapons of mass destruction, after after Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sardasht was deliberately targeted with weapons of mass destruction. It also became the first town in the world to be attacked by poisonous gas.
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Thanks to Western and US support, the Ba'athist regime of Iraq once possessed a huge arsenal of chemical weapons.
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