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US claims on Iran chemical weapons politically motivated, fabricated: Analyst

Friday, 23 November 2018 3:44 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 23 November 2018 3:51 PM ]

This file photo taken on April 4, 2018 in The Hague shows the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. (Photo by AFP)

The US claims bout Iran's failure to declare "a toxic arms program" to the global chemical warfare watchdog are a “fabrication” designed to justify Washington’s interference in the internal affairs of the Islamic republic, says an analyst.

The accusations were leveled Thursday by the US mission to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague on Thursday.

US envoy Kenneth Ward told the OPCW conference that Tehran was seeking deadly nerve agents for "offensive purposes".

“The latest American allegation against Iran is like all previous ones - unsubstantiated, politically motivated, malicious lies designed to justify America’s unofficial and long-term ambition of overthrowing the Iranian government and returning Iran to how it was in the days of the Shah, namely a client state of America,” Marcus Papadopoulos, publisher and editor of Politics First, told Press TV in an interview on Friday.

“This recent allegation against Iran is no different from the allegations that the Americans made in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Iraq, in Libya and indeed in Syria. They are all completely fabrications designed to justify American interference and even worse, intervention in the internal affairs of independent sovereign states,” he added.

Iran has categorically dismissed the US accusations. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi lashed out at Washington for failing to fulfill its own commitments under the convention.