📌 London, IRNA – Iran’s ambassador to the Netherlands and Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has said that US military attacks on Iran’s chemical industries damaged 111 petrochemical and pharmaceutical facilities, disrupting supply chains and affecting the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Iran’s Permanent Mission to the OPCW on Tuesday released excerpts from remarks by Hadi Farajvand at the 113th session of the OPCW Executive Council, saying that 60 petrochemical complexes, 44 pharmaceutical factories and seven pharmaceutical facilities in Iran were damaged during the US attacks.
Farajvand said the damage inflicted on Iran’s chemical and pharmaceutical industries had disrupted supply chains and affected the implementation of obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
He also stressed that protecting chemical facilities from armed conflicts is essential to preserving the integrity of the Convention, peaceful activities in the field of chemistry and international cooperation.
He added that the deliberate US attacks on the facilities had raised serious concerns regarding several articles of the Chemical Weapons Convention, as well as the object and purpose of the international treaty.
The 113th session of the OPCW Executive Council began in The Hague on Tuesday and will continue until October 9.
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