Justice against suppliers of chemical weapons to Saddam Husssein sought
Iraq-Iran-USA, Politics, 10/23/2007

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki yesterday called on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to bring to justice suppliers of chemical weapons to Saddam regime during the 1980-88 Iraqi-imposed war on Iran.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of an international seminar on adverse consequences of using chemical weapons against Iran, he added, "A Dutch company has been legally followed up and found guilty with regards to the issue."

"Tehran requests the ICJ to take legal action against 400 companies which were involved in supplying Saddam's regime with chemical weapons in 1980s," the Iranian foreign minister said.

He said that the US ranks first in possessing chemical weapons in the world, and that Moscow has undertaken to annihilate all its chemical weapons in due time.

"Legal action against companies supplying Saddam with chemical weapons will prevent expansion of such weapons," he noted.

Criticizing US's double-standard toward weapons of mass destruction, he said, the US does not believe in annihilation of chemical weapons since it possesses the biggest arsenals of weapons of mass destruction, chemical and nuclear weapons."

The US had been accused of helping Saddam Hussein arm. The Washington Post reported in December 30, 2002 that "The story of US involvement with Saddam Hussein in the years before his 1990 attack on Kuwait -- which included large-scale intelligence sharing, supply of cluster bombs through a Chilean front company, and facilitating Iraq's acquisition of chemical and biological precursors -- is a topical example of the underside of US foreign policy. It is a world in which deals can be struck with dictators, human rights violations sometimes overlooked."

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