In a meeting with the families of the martyrs and chemical warfare victims of Sardasht, Ali Bagheri Kani said that countries that brutally inflicted chemical warfare to the lives of the Iranian people yesterday rudely violate the rights of the Iranian people with the software of economic and political power today.
The governments that are applying the maximum pressure and the heaviest sanctions against the Iranian people today with their political and economic means are the same ones that provided Saddam with chemical weapons yesterday, prevented international action against the Ba'athist regime and did not reflect those crimes on the media, he added.
He also stressed that if western countries are sincere in their claim to advocate human rights, instead of holding a demonstration of human rights in Geneva, they should hold a real human rights summit in Sardasht to closely monitor the results of their crimes, which after three decades, are still exposed in the alleys of Sardasht.
The Deputy of International Affairs to the Judiciary stated that although Saddam played the role of the executioner in the most brutal in the atrocities committed in Sardasht, the approach and action of certain western governments were surely not less than the role of the executioner, because these governments are wise and deliberate in producing and selling chemical weapons to Saddam and also prevented international actions against the mentioned crimes.
He noted that US recently declassified documents show that the Americans were not only fully aware of Saddam's use of chemical weapons, but also, in addition to equipping the Baathist regime with chemical weapons during the Reagan and Bush administrations to the best of their ability, in 1987, when US spy satellites discovered that the Iranians were on the verge of a major strategic victory by using a rift in Iraq's defenses, the US government fully informed the Baathist army and was completely aware of the Iraqi army decision to use chemical weapons against the Iranians.
Sardasht should become the driving force of the global movement to disarm the mass destruction weapons, and in the meantime, the United States, which has the largest arsenal of nuclear and chemical weapons in the world, should be brought to the table of world public opinion as the main accused of the world nuclear and chemical threat, Bagheri kani said.
In the end, the Deputy of International Affairs to the Judiciary emphasized that the judiciary is seriously pursuing the enforcement of the rights of chemical warfare victims and said that in this context, more than 200 of them have filed lawsuits in courts and for almost 70 persons, the final verdicts have been issued.” Several European companies that provided chemical weapons to the Baathist regime during the war have also been sued in international courts, he added.