Imam Khamenei Slams West’s Double Standards on WMD

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The Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei has lashed out at Western countries for adopting a double-standard policy toward the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction [WMDs], reminding them of their support for slain Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his war on Iran in the 1980s.

Imam Khamenei made the remarks on Wednesday in a meeting with a group of war-time commanders, veterans and artists on the occasion of the Sacred Defense Week marking the anniversary of the eight-year-long war on Iran.

Despite the West's current "ballyhoo over accusations of using chemical weapons, they provided the Saddam regime with chemical weapons used not only in the war fronts but also in cities like Sardasht [against civilians]," His Eminence stated.

The Leader said the Islamic Republic was under economic and political sanctions in those years, and the Iranian nation’s voice could not be heard in the world as global media was "under the hegemony of Zionists."

Referring to France and Germany's support of the Iraqi regime during the war, Imam Khamenei said, “Why shouldn’t the French and German nations know what their governments did to the Iranian nation in those eight years?”

During the Iraqi-imposed war, "Iran was not even allowed to use the most basic equipment and facilities like barbed wires, while the other side was provided with the most modern war equipment and even chemical weapons,” he added.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team