Iran's deputy foreign minister has decried the production, stockpiling and use of chemical arms, saying Tehran has been a victim of such weapons."We are very sensitive about chemical arsenals," said Mohammad Mahdi Akhoundzadeh, Iran's deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, in an interview with the Dutch newspaper NRC.
The Iranian diplomat is in the Netherlands to attend an annual conference of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
He said Iranian people, who have been victimized by chemical weapons, do not like others to be victimized by the weapons.
In October, the 62nd Session of the OPCW Executive Council issued a landmark declaration condemning Iraq's chemical attacks on Iran's northwestern city of Sardasht in 1987, during the eight year war that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had imposed on the Islamic Theocratic
Republicin 1980s.
The initiative for an international support network -- proposed by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki -- was first tabled at OPCW conference in 2007 as the "Chemical Weapons Victim's International Funding and Assistance Network."