Iran (IMNA) - Speaking at the 113th session of the OPCW Executive Council, Iran’s permanent representative to the organization, Hadi Farajvand, said 60 petrochemical complexes, 44 pharmaceutical factories and seven other pharmaceutical facilities were damaged during the US attacks.
Iran’s mission in The Hague published excerpts from Farajvand’s remarks, in which he highlighted the broader consequences of the damage to the country’s chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
He said the attacks disrupted supply chains and affected the implementation of Iran’s obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Farajvand stressed that protecting chemical facilities during armed conflicts is essential to preserving the integrity of the convention, ensuring the continuation of peaceful activities in the chemical sector and maintaining international cooperation.
He also said the deliberate US attacks on the facilities had raised serious concerns over Articles 1, 6 and 11 of the Chemical Weapons Convention, as well as the convention’s overall aims and purposes.
Under the convention, Article 1 sets out the general obligations of member states concerning the prohibition of chemical weapons. Article 6 addresses activities that are not prohibited under the convention, while Article 11 focuses on international cooperation and economic and technological development for peaceful chemical activities.
Farajvand also reiterated Iran’s concerns over US compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention, including Washington’s alleged role in the Israeli regime’s chemical weapons program and its own programs involving non-lethal and incapacitating chemical agents.
He said that more than two decades after these concerns were first raised, they remain unanswered and unresolved.
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