The director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) offered sympathies to and expressed solidarity with the people of Sardasht on the 36th anniversary of a chemical attack by the former Iraqi regime on the Iranian town. In a message on Wednesday, OPCW Director-General Fernando Arias commemorated victims of the ...

Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi has criticized the UN Security Council for repeating baseless accusations against Syria regarding the chemical weapons. Speaking during the meeting of the Security Council on Wednesday on Syria, Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi ...

An Iranian official has strongly criticized politicizing the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) by certain countries to achieve politically-motivated goals. Irans permanent ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi made the remarks in an address to a Thursday meeting ...

Irans deputy ambassador to the United Nations raised concerns about the possession of chemical weapons by the US and Israel, and called for de-politicization of the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Speaking on Wednesday at the Security Council briefing on chemical weapons in Syria, Zahra Ershadi said that ...

Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Fernando Arias said in a statement on Monday that the victims of Sardasht chemical weapon attack by the Saddam Hussein regime and all others who have experienced the torment and pain caused by chemical weapons deserve all our respect and solidarity. He made ...

MNA Iranian ambassador to the Netherlands called the new decision of the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) over Syria unbalanced and a step towards politicizing the organization. The 94th Session of the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Thursday ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi described the first report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) probe team on using chemical weapons in Syria as "biased, unilateral, dependent and out of its competence and authority". Speaking to IRNA on Monday, Mousavi said that Iran as the biggest victim of ...

RT - Documents published by WikiLeaks that suggest a cover-up of inconvenient facts about the Douma, Syria chemical attack investigation raise serious questions about the OPCW, security experts, scholars and diplomats tell RT. The US, UK and France launched missile strikes against Syria in April 2018, after White Helmets and jihadist rebels accused ...

MNA Islamic Republic of Iran took membership in the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) during the 24th Annual Conference OPCWof members of the Organization. As held in the Hague, the Netherlands on Thu., Islamic Republic of Iran along with Philippines and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from the ...

Press TV - Irans ambassador and permanent representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says unilateral US sanctions have prevented the countrys access to medical and health services required to treat victims of chemical attacks carried out by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. The inhumane sanctions ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   White House passes phone number to Swiss, in case Iran wants to call After President Donald Trump publicly appealed to Iran to call him amid heightened tensions with Tehran, the White House contacted the Swiss on Thursday to share a phone number the Iranians could call the President ...

IRNA - Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) elected Iran as the vice chair of its executive council. Upon its nomination by the Asian countries, the Islamic Republic of Iran was successfully elected as the vice chair of the Executive Council of the OPCW, despite objection by the US, Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran in The ...

MNA Member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have failed to agree on a final document at the 4th Review Conference held in The Hague on Nov. 21-30. "A group of Western countries has done their utmost to not agree on the final document of the Review Conference," Russias Permanent Representative to OPCW Alexander ...

MNA Iran in an address to the OPCW 4th Review Conference has condemned the US destructive polices in violation of all international agreements, saying Washington is not fit to object to the decisions of OPCW member states. Member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) failed to agree on a final document at the ...

IRNA US claim that Iran is secretive about the issue of chemical weapons is baseless, Iran said through a statement Friday. The statement was released by Director General of the Department of International Peace and Security of Irans Ministry of Foreign Affairs Reza Najafi in response to the anti-Iran claim made by the US Ambassador to the Organization ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has categorically dismissed the US baseless accusations that Tehran has breached the Chemical Weapons Convention. During the Fourth Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in The Hague on Thursday, the US mission to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ...

IRNA Iran is to deliver speech at the OPCW conference in Hague, the Netherlands, about the US unfair sanctions against Tehrans access to medical and health services, an Iranian official said on Wednesday. Iranian delegation is also to talk about the situation of women who are the victims of chemical weapons in Sardasht, Rahim Vahedi, chairman of ...

Tasnim Irans Ambassador to the Netherlands Alireza Jahangiri confirmed Virginia state senator Richard Blacks recent remarks that Britains intelligence service plans to launch a chemical attack in Syria and blame it on Damascus, saying this is what Tehran has repeatedly warned. US senator: Britain's #MI6 is planning a #fake chemical weapons attack ...

MNA Irans Permanent Representative to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) expressed regret over incomplete disarmament of the United States weapons of mass destruction (WMD), saying that this is a threat to international peace and security. Addressing the 88th Executive Council session of the OPCW, Alireza Jahangiri ...

Tasnim The Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ahmet Uzumcu paid homage to the victims of a 1987 chemical bombing of the northwestern city of Sardasht by the Iraqi army under former dictator Saddam Hussein. Every year on 28 June, we come together to mourn the men and women who perished and those who ...