{"id":59695,"date":"2026-06-27T23:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=59695"},"modified":"2026-06-27T23:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:55:26","slug":"iran-%e2%80%98standard-bearer%e2%80%99-in-global-fight-against-wmds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/59695\/iran-%e2%80%98standard-bearer%e2%80%99-in-global-fight-against-wmds\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran \u2018standard-bearer\u2019 in global fight against WMDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Araghchi made the comments as Iran commemorates the 39th anniversary of the chemical bombing of the northwestern city of Sardasht vy the former Baathist regime of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran remains the standard-bearer in the fight against weapons of mass destruction,\u201d Araghchi said in a message read at a commemorative ceremony, vowing to pursue justice for survivors of chemical attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister used the Sardasht anniversary \u2013 observed as Iran\u2019s National Day of Combat against Chemical and Biological Weapons \u2013 to contrast Tehran\u2019s position with the continued support of certain Western governments for aggressive powers. He drew a direct line between the 1987 attack and the recent \u201csinister aggression\u201d of the United States and Israel against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Araghchi said legal and procedural obstacles would not diminish Tehran\u2019s determination to seek accountability.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the chemical attacks carried out during the Iran-Iraq War were enabled by the support and silence of some Western governments, which he said had helped arm the government of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Araghchi made the comments as Iran commemorates the 39th anniversary of the chemical bombing of the northwestern city of Sardasht vy the former Baathist regime of Iraq. \u201cIran remains the standard-bearer in the fight against weapons of mass destruction,\u201d Araghchi said in a message read at a commemorative ceremony, vowing to pursue justice for survivors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-and-markets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}