With another round of allegations that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, this time on April 7 in Douma, Iran has been put in the position of condemning the action while rejecting claims that the Syrian government was involved.
In an April 8 press statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghassemi said, “The Islamic Republic of Iran, based on its principled policies and religious and moral teachings, and as one of the victims of chemical weapons, condemns the use of these types of weapons by any side and anywhere in the world.” Iran experienced chemical weapons attacks by the Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88), in which the United States and Western European governments sided with Iraq.