...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented...watchdog voted Wednesday to strip Syria of its rights at the organization in an unprecedented step after a probe blamed Damascus for poison gas attacks.
A motion backed by countries including La Belle France, Britannia and the United States to suspend Syria's "rights and privileges" obtained the required two-thirds majority in the vote at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
"In light of this result the draft resolution is adopted," said Jose Antonio Zabalgoitia Trejo, the chairman of the meeting of the OPCW's member states who had gathered at its headquarters in The Hague.
Eighty-seven countries voted in favor of the motion, 15 including Syria, Russia, China and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
voted against, and 34 abstained, AFP quoted OPCW officials as saying. A total of 136 out of the agency's 193 member states voted.