{"id":22880,"date":"2018-11-23T01:22:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T01:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22880"},"modified":"2018-11-23T01:22:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T01:22:56","slug":"egyptian-police-kill-12-militants-in-sinai-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22880","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian police kill 12 militants in Sinai raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"68\">\n<p>\nTHE HAGUE: The US accused Iran on Thursday of failing to declare a toxic arms program to the global chemical warfare watchdog, in breach of international agreements.<\/p>\n<p>\nUS envoy Kenneth Ward told the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague that Tehran was also seeking deadly nerve agents for \u201coffensive purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nTehran did not immediately respond to the accusations, which add to tensions with Washington over Iran\u2019s nuclear program, terrorism, and the war in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe United States has had longstanding concerns that Iran maintains a chemical weapons program that it failed to declare to the OPCW,\u201d ambassador Ward told a five-yearly meeting on the body\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe US is also concerned that Iran is pursuing central nervous system-acting chemicals for offensive purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nWard said Iran had failed to declare the transfer of chemical-filled shells sent to Libya in the 1980s despite an appeal by the OPCW to identify their origin. They were found after the death of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThey were clearly of Iranian origin as evidenced by the Farsi writing on the boxes containing the artillery shells,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\nIran had also failed to declare a \u201cchemical weapons filling capability\u201d despite the discovery of toxic shells and bombs in Libya and also in Iraq. Finally, Iran had failed to declare riot control agents despite having marketed them at defense expos, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\nWard accused Iran and its ally Russia of \u201cenabling\u201d the use of chemical weapons by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad \u201cwhile pursuing their own chemical weapons programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HAGUE: The US accused Iran on Thursday of failing to declare a toxic arms program to the global chemical warfare watchdog, in breach of international agreements. US envoy Kenneth Ward told the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague that Tehran was also seeking deadly nerve agents for \u201coffensive purposes.\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}