Iran Press/ Iran news: Speaking at the 8th National Chemical Defense Conference on Wednesday, Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali said the world's arrogant powers, including some European countries, possess chemical arsenals that they use against other nations, so the first lesson is preparation for such attacks.
The West-back Iraqi Saddam regime's chemical attack on Sardasht, western Iran, on June 28, 1987, left nearly 130 people killed and 8,000 others wounded and chemically harmed.
General Jalali said: "We have designed the defense and operational system of chemical defense with the focus on 3 areas: control of chemical consequences, protection of chemical infrastructure, and response to chemical operations."
He referred to the establishment of an equipped emergency sector in Baghiyatallh Hospital in Tehran as a preparatory step against the chemical attacks.
He also flashed back to the 8-year war imposed on Iran by the US-backed regime of Saddam and recalled that those countries trumpeting their advocacy of human rights, especially Germany, Netherlands, France, and England, provided Saddam with chemical weapons against the people of Iran.
During the 8-year war on Iran, about 10,000 people got martyred, and 107,000 others were chemically harmed.
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