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Tehran Refutes US Claims about Failure to Declare Chemical Weapons

Tehran Refutes US Claims about Failure to Declare Chemical Weapons
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Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Bahram Qassemi considered on Friday that the claims made by the US mission to OPCW about Tehran's alleged failure to provide full information on the production and supplies of chemical weapons are absolutely groundless.

"During the Fourth Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention [CWC] in The Hague on Thursday, the US mission to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons [OPCW] once again levelled groundless accusations against the Islamic Republic [of Iran], which we strongly reject," the ministry's official website cited Qassemi as saying.

He added that the Iranian side would prepare a response to the allegations, noting that the US itself was the only country in the organization that still possessed chemical weapons.

"Based on the Conference procedure, the Iranian mission to the OPCW will give an appropriate response to these baseless accusations at the end of the general debates… The crystal-clear point here is that the US is the only OPCW member state with chemical weapon arsenals, which has so far failed to fulfill its commitment to destroy them," Qassemi said.

His comments came in response to a claim made by US Permanent Representative to the organization Kenneth Ward during his speech at an OPCW conference in the Netherlands on Thursday that Iran allegedly maintained its chemical weapons program and failed to declare it to the OPCW.

Relations between Washington and Tehran have been hostile for decades. The relations deteriorated even further after the US unilaterally withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, in May and re-imposed sanctions on Tehran.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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