Iran's opposition to Turkey's military offensive in northern Syria falls flat in light of its track record in Syria
Iran is the world’s biggest laboratory of surviving chemical attack victims. More than, many of them former soldiers, still suffer from the paralysing effects of nerve agents sarin and tabun used by Saddam Hussain’s forces during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
But in Syria, the Iranian government looked the other way and continued to support the regime of Bashar al Assad, which used chlorine and sarin against civilians more thanIran’s military, economic and diplomatic backing has been crucial for Assad’s survival in the eight-year-long civil war that has killed half a million people and displaced millions more.
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