Analyst:

US claims on Iran chemical weapons politically motivated, fabricated

Rasa - The US claims bout Iran's failure to declare "a toxic arms program" to the global chemical warfare watchdog are a “fabrication” designed to justify Washington’s interference in the internal affairs of the Islamic republic, says an analyst.

News ID: 441704

Date: 24 November 2018 - 13:51

RNA - The accusations were leveled Thursday by the US mission to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague on Thursday.

US envoy Kenneth Ward told the OPCW conference that Tehran was seeking deadly nerve agents for "offensive purposes".

“The latest American allegation against Iran is like all previous ones - unsubstantiated, politically motivated, malicious lies designed to justify America’s unofficial and long-term ambition of overthrowing the Iranian government and returning Iran to how it was in the days of the Shah, namely a client state of America,” Marcus Papadopoulos, publisher and editor of Politics First, said on Friday.

“This recent allegation against Iran is no different from the allegations that the Americans made in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Iraq, in Libya and indeed in Syria. They are all completely fabrications designed to justify American interference and even worse, intervention in the internal affairs of independent sovereign states,” he added.

According to Press TV, Iran has categorically dismissed the US accusations. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi lashed out at Washington for failing to fulfill its own commitments under the convention.

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