Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a statement that recent US and Israeli strikes in Iran — which he claims harmed civilians — 'recall the same dangerous logic that supported the use of chemical weapons against the Iranian people.' Araghchi made the comparison during a commemoration of victims of the chemical attack in Sardasht during the Iran-Iraq War, and defiantly called Iran 'the greatest victim of chemical weapons in the modern era.'
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issued a statement on Sunday equating recent precision strikes by the United States and Israel in Iran with the use of chemical weapons against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War. Speaking at a memorial for the victims of Saddam Hussein's 1987 chemical attack on the Kurdish town of Sardasht, Araghchi claimed that American and Israeli strikes had harmed civilians and reflected 'the same dangerous logic' supporting chemical warfare. He also called Iran 'the greatest victim of chemical weapons in the modern era' and said Tehran 'leads the fight against weapons of mass destruction.' The remarks were carried by Iranian news channels. As The Zioneer has noted in prior coverage (June 2026), the UN's investigation of the Sardasht attack found Iraq responsible for deploying mustard gas against civilians; Araghchi's comparison deliberately blurs the distinction between deliberate, indiscriminate CW use and targeted military strikes against regime infrastructure. No independent corroboration of civilian casualties from the recent U.S. and Israeli strikes has been provided.
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