Iran denies allegation of violating Chemical Weapons Convention

TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) — Iran’s permanent mission to the UN in New York has firmly rebutted claims suggesting that Iran had breached the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the official news agency IRNA reported Friday.
The Institute for the Study of War, a policy research organization on U.S. national security, alleged that Iran had been focusing on how to produce and deliver pharmaceutical-based chemical agents for military use, citing a Nov. 26 report by the U.S. Institute for Science and International Security.
In response to the allegation, the Iranian diplomatic mission wrote Thursday on social media platform X that Iran stands as a responsible signatory to the CWC, which strictly forbids the development, production, and stockpiling of chemical weapons, asserting that “over the past several decades, not a single instance of Iranian violation has been recorded.”
It called the allegation “unfounded” and “merely an outgrowth of psychological warfare propagated by the Zionist regime (Israel) in the wake of its recent defeat on the Lebanese front.” ■