Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that US accusations that Tehran has a chemical weapons programme were \u201cobscene and dangerous\u201d.<\/p>\n
The US allegations are the latest salvo against Iran from the administration of President Donald Trump, who earlier this year pulled out of a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between major powers and Tehran and reimposed crippling unilateral sanctions.<\/p>\n
\u201c US wants to resort to international conventions to make allegations against Iran when it\u2019s made a policy of violating them itself,\u201d Zarif said in a tweet on Friday.<\/p>\n
He said that allegations about weapons of mass destruction \u201cby a country that supported Iraq\u2019s use of CW against Iran, then invaded Iraq to allegedly rid it of them is not just obscene, it\u2019s dangerous\u201d.<\/p>\n
Iran has accused the US of being the \u201conly member state that has a chemical weapons arsenal and has, until now, not acted on its obligations to destroy it\u201d.<\/p>\n
Iran is one of the few countries that has been attacked with chemical weapons since the end of World War I in 1918.<\/p>\n
Chemical weapons used by Saddam Hussein\u2019s Iraq during its 1980-88 war with Iran killed and wounded tens of thousands of Iranian soldiers and civilians.<\/p>\n
Iran has expressed strong opposition ever since to the use or possession of chemical weapons by any country.<\/p>\n
Zarif, who is in Italy for a conference, on Friday also expressed his frustration with the European Union\u2019s delay to come up with means of allowing EU trade with Tehran despite US sanctions .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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