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Experts should sample sites of chlorine bomb attacks in Syria for highly toxic dioxin and investigate Iranian role

Experts should sample sites of chlorine bomb attacks in Syria for highly toxic dioxin and investigate Iranian role

EXPERTS SHOULD SAMPLE SITES OF CHLORINE BOMB ATTACKS IN SYRIA FOR HIGHLY TOXIC DIOXIN New Joint Investigative Mechanism should also investigate role of Iranian Revolutionary Guards in chemical attacks in Syria The Hague, 19 August 2015 – The campaign group Naame Shaam (1) today demanded that the […]

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Evidence suggests Sepah Pasdaran may have played role in 2013 Ghouta chemical attack in Syria

Evidence suggests Sepah Pasdaran may have played role in 2013 Ghouta chemical attack in Syria

Evidence suggests Sepah Pasdaran may have played role in 2013 Ghouta chemical attack in Syria Naame Shaam calls for international investigations to examine possible complicity of Sepah Qods chief Qassem Soleimani Tehran/Damascus, 19 August 2014 – On the first anniversary of the Ghouta chemical attack in Syria, […]

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Petition demanding international investigation and trial of perpetrators of Ghouta chemical massacre, including Sepah Pasdaran

Petition demanding international investigation and trial of perpetrators of Ghouta chemical massacre, including Sepah Pasdaran

Naame Shaam has co-signed this petition, which appeals to the International Criminal Court  prosecutor Fatou Bensoud to conduct investigations into the 2013 chemical gas attack in al-Ghouta, Syria, and refer those responsible to the International Criminal Court, “starting from the head of the [Syrian] regime and ending […]

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Reports confirm use of toxic gases by Syrian regime, again

Reports confirm use of toxic gases by Syrian regime, again

Chlorine barrel bombs produce highly toxic dioxin Various well-documented reports have now confirmed that Bashar al-Assad’s forces used highly toxic gases in several attacks on civilian areas across Syria in April 2014. According to the Violations Documentation Centre, three barrel bombs loaded with chlorine were dropped on […]

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New evidence that Ghouta chemical attack was carried out by regime forces

New evidence that Ghouta chemical attack was carried out by regime forces

Could the Iranian government be the supplier of the chemical rockets that killed hundreds of civilians? New analysis of rockets linked to the sarin gas attack on the suburbs of Damascus on 21 August 2013 has concluded that the rockets were most likely fired by multiple launchers […]

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Seymour Hersh and the Gouta chemical massacre

Under the title ‘Whose Sarin?’, the renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the London Review of Books in early December 2013 about the Ghouta chemical attack near Damascus in August 2013 (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin). Hersh claims that the Obama administration “cherry-pickedintelligence [on the use of chemical […]

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Story of child who survived the Ghouta chemical massacre

Story of child who survived the Ghouta chemical massacre

Sixteen-year-old Muhammad lost his entire family in the chemical massacre in the eastern suburbs of Damascus in August. He only survived because he was working a night shift in a hospital. His father died from the effects of the sarin gas after rushing to the scene to […]

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