Ayatollah Khamenei slams double standards on use of chemicals
Tehran (KNA) - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has blasted certain countries for applying a double-standard approach to the use of chemical weapons.
At a Saturday meeting with a group of teenagers and youths in Tehran, the Leader pointed to the use of chemical weapons by the regime of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein against Iranian people during the eight-year war in 1980s.
In the course of that war, Ayatollah Khamenei said, France gave its most advanced planes and helicopters to the Saddam regime, while Germany supplied it with toxic chemical materials.
"Those who are today attacking a certain group over the accusation of using chemicals, openly gave Saddam such materials for making bombs," the Leader said.
Source: Press TV