Iranian Foreign Minister Calls "Dangerous" US Chemical Weapons Charges

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that US accusations that Tehran had a chemical weapons program were "obscene and dangerous". US allegations are the latest salvo against the Iranian administration by the government of President Donald Trump, who withdrew earlier this year from the historic agreement signed in 2015 between the group of great powers and Tehran and reimposed unilateral paralyzing sanctions.

"The United States wants to resort to international conventions to make allegations against Iran when they make it a policy to rape them themselves," Zarif said in a tweet on Friday.

He stated that the allegations of "weapons of mass destruction" formulated by a country that supported Iraq's use of chemical weapons (chemical weapons) against Iran, and then the invasion of Iraq to rid it so-called, is not just obscene, it is dangerous ".

Earlier Friday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said Tehran "strongly rejects" US accusations.

"The United States … has, as usual, made baseless accusations against the Islamic Republic, which we firmly reject," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"Such false and false accusations are solely due to enmity towards the Iranian nation and are intended to deflect international attention from its own broken commitments and its continued support to the chemical arsenal of the country." Zionist regime and terrorist groups. "

The United States on Thursday accused Iran of failing to declare a chemical weapons program to global surveillance, in violation of international agreements.

US envoy Kenneth Ward told the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague that Tehran was also looking for deadly nerve agents for offensive purposes.

Iran has accused the United States of being the "only Member State with an arsenal of chemical weapons and has so far failed to honor its obligations to destroy it".

Iran is one of the few countries to have been attacked with chemical weapons since the end of the First World War in 1918.

The chemical weapons used by Saddam Hussein's Iraq during his 1980-1988 war with Iran killed and wounded tens of thousands of Iranian soldiers and civilians.

Iran has since expressed strong opposition to the use or possession of chemical weapons by all countries.

Zarif, who is in Italy for a conference, also expressed Friday his frustration at the delay by the European Union in finding a way to allow EU trade with Tehran despite the sanctions. US.

"The EU must make a decision: does it want the United States to dictate its relations with others …?" he asked in a tweet.

The nuclear agreement "was in the interest of the security of Europe (which) must now invest in this security". he added.

Although the European Union is committed to creating a "special vehicle" (SPV) to protect companies buying oil, analysts believe that companies are unlikely to risk US penalties by using it.