Iran's UN Ambassador rejects UN Security Council resolution and reminds the US of their part in Saddam's use of chemical weapons in 1980
Iran's UN Ambassador takes this opportunity to point out that Iranian people were the only victims of a chemical weapons attack in recent history at the hands of a US-supplied/backed Saddam Hussein...
Source: Washington Post
Iran says Security Council demand illegal
"Iran's peaceful nuclear program poses no threat to international peace and security and therefore dealing with this issue in the Security Council is unwarranted and void of any legal basis or practical utility," Zarif told the council.
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Iranians were not interested in developing nuclear weapons or any other weapon of mass destruction, he said, recalling a chemical attack staged by then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on the Iranian people in 1980.
"As the only victims of the use of weapons of mass destruction in recent history, they reject the development and use of all these inhuman weapons on ideological as well as strategic grounds," Zarif said
