England’s prominent role in equipping the Baathist army with chemical weapons

Mehr News Agency, International Group, Elnaz Rahmatnejad: Iran War And Iraq is considered one of the biggest and longest wars of the 20th century, which started with the instigation of the West and the action of the Iraqi government, and ended with the direct and indirect entry of big and small powers from both the Western and Eastern blocs.

The mentioned war, which occurred in the bipolar structure of the international system, regional and extra-regional global powers played a role. . Among the trans-regional powers that played an active and aggressive intervention role in this war was England.

British policy against the war imposed by the Saddam regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran is basically influenced by America’s partisan support policies towards Saddam. And the approach of the European Union in the regional issues of the Middle East was defined.

The 44th anniversary of the Sacred Defense Week was a good excuse to examine and review the role of Western countries in the prolongation of Iraq’s imposed war against Iran. For this reason, we opened the “Role of the West in the Imposed War” case. The first report of this case is dedicated to reviewing and reviewing the role of active and aggressive US political intervention, which can be read and reviewed from the following link:

«America did for Saddam Hussein what it didn’t do for its allies»

In the second part of the mentioned case report, the role of British active and aggressive political intervention is discussed. Its description is given later in this report;

England’s scandalous deal and arms sales to Iraq

Although England claimed to refuse to sell weapons to the warring parties during the Iraq-Iran war, British companies under different titles in the contracts they concluded with Iraq are equipping more than before. They were the army of this country; For example, “Marconi” company was one of several British companies that worked to sell equipment to Iraq.

The British financial Times magazine also wrote about this : “An English company produces large quantities of bullets containing poisonous gases such as Henselin, Troniat and fire bombs Za exported to Iraq similar to the bombs that America used in Vietnam.”

The British government has played a role in equipping the Iraqi Baath army with chemical weapons. David Kern, the former American diplomat in Baghdad, said about this bare: “The British government only a few The week after Iraq used chemical weapons in Halabja, by sending a British cabinet minister to Baghdad, he doubled the trade credits given to the Iraqi government.

The signs on the remains of many bombs found in Halabja showed that Iraq used the participation of 18 British companies in the production of chemical weapons, and in only one case, the British government In 1985, he equipped a 14 million pound plant to produce chlorine, which was used by the Iraqi Baath regime to make chemical weapons.

The names of English companies equipping Saddam’s war machine with chemical and nuclear weapons also confirm this fact. The discovery of a cargo of chemical poisons in an Iraqi-registered ship in the port of Normandy, France, during which four bottles containing strong chemical poisons were spread there, caused the French police to warn the public about this.

The mentioned ship has 35 thousand tons of di mitel phosphonate (dimethyl methyl phosphonate) was transported from the port of Liverpool, England to Kuwait and from there to Iraq. Di Mittel phosphonate, which was purchased for 500 thousand British pounds, apparently for use in The petrochemical plant of Baghdad was prepared, but the Iraqis used them to convert them into chemical weapons. For this reason, Tony Banks, a representative of the Labor Party in the British Parliament, while talking to reporters, called this action of the British government a scandalous deal.

British use of chemical weapons and armed support of the Baathist regime

Review of the new history of chemical warfare goes back to 1899 in England’s war with the Boers, Dutch immigrants living in South Africa. In that war, the British army used cannons containing picric acid, which had a nauseating effect. And also according to “Charles Rousseau” famous jurist in the Transvaal War, England from bullets He used a ball that contained Lydite and after the explosion it emitted a gas that caused suffocation.

The British army’s use of chemical weapons caused other colonial powers to produce and develop such weapons and thousands of people were killed in the First World War. In the last decade of the 20th century, during the war imposed by Iraq against Iran, the old colonialism once again provided military and political support to the Baathist regime of Iraq with a new strategy and approach.

According to the research carried out by the Chemical Weapons Victims Support Association and based on the remaining documents, Mead International (MEED international) in the dual-use weapons program and engineering company T MM J (TMG engineering), were involved in Saddam’s chemical weapons program.

Providing weapons to Saddam; From war machine to missile

Coating T Ti Coating, Unisys (Unisys), Sperry corp, Rock Well, Hewlett Packard (Hewlett_Paekard), work Zeiss_US SS (Carl Zeiss_US) and Bechtel (Bechtel) played a role in equipping Iraq’s war machine.

In the missile program of the Saddam government in the war against Iran, Honey Well companies, Smitex (Cemetex), Tek Tronix, Howlett Packard (Hewlett_Paekard), Eastman Kodak ( Est Kodak), Electronic Associates, International Computer Systems systems) and EZ Logic Data system inc

coating companies T AI (Ti Coting), Unisys (Unisys), Sperry corp, Tek Tronix, vacuum Lee Lode (Leylode Vacuum systems), the American company Met_Fi Ni Gen (Finningan Mat Us), Hewlett Packard (Hewlett_Paekard), Dupont, Consarc (Consarc), Serbros Limited liability (Cerbrus Ltd), international computer systems, Canberra Industries Inc, Axel electronic Inc helped the deposed Saddam regime’s nuclear program.

800-page censorship of Saddam’s government’s unconventional weapons by the UN Security Council

In the 1,200-page report of Iraq that was submitted to the United Nations in December 2002, the names of British companies that equipped Iraq with technology and unconventional nuclear, biological and missile weapons It has been recorded that, of course, the UN Security Council at that time censored 800 pages of the names of Western business centers that had contributed to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program, which the left-wing German newspaper tag Zeitung Die Tageszeitung in December 2002 Excerpts from the original report i.e. the uncensored parts of the report printed 1200 pages.

Iran’s arms embargo and Iraq’s development of cluster bombs

Iraq’s efforts to buy weapons and obtain weapons-making tools from England continued so that in 1987, the Iraqi Baath government established a new company called “T M J” registered in England that In its first activity, this company made a machine tool company called “TI AI machine Tools” which operated in “Coventry” was bought for 9 million dollars and with the purchase of that name Changed the company to Matrix Churchill; A company that sent lathes to “Hatin” to be used there to make cluster bombs.

All Iraq’s efforts in this field were carried out while Iran was facing an arms embargo in the imposed war; For this reason, he opened an office in London so that he could make the necessary purchases from the black market. But the activities of the Iranian office in London were not only monitored by the British intelligence agency, but they also provided the obtained information to Iraq.

Although England claimed to refuse to sell weapons to the warring parties during the Iraq-Iran war, British companies with different titles in contracts which they concluded with Iraq, they were equipping the country’s army more than before; For example, “Marconi” company was one of several British companies that worked to sell equipment to Iraq.

In 1985, this company signed a contract for the sale of “micro Wave transmitters to Iraq in order to use these devices and using telephone lines to send orders to the southern fronts in the shortest possible time; In addition, in the same year, the company “Racal” committed in a contract to manufacture the most advanced military radio in the world called “build Jaguar” in Iraq.

Of course, British companies did not only help Saddam to make weapons and ammunition, but also made efforts to protect their lives; For this reason, the British, along with companies from the former Yugoslavia and Belgium, built strong underground shelters for the Air Force of the Iraqi Baath Army; In this way, each of the mentioned countries was responsible for the construction and equipping of Saddam’s air force shelters, and the responsibility for the construction and supply of power plants and communication equipment for these bases was the responsibility of a company from England.

According to the estimate of the Association of Machine Tool Technologies, the sale of machine tools to Iraq increased from $2.9 million in 1987 to $31.5 million in 1988.

The British government was at the service of Saddam anyway

The mentioned cases are only a small part of the actions that the British government has taken in support of Saddam in the eight years of Iraq’s imposed war against Iran and describe all the activities of the British government in Supporting the Iraqi Baath regime cannot be mentioned in this limited report.

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution also said in his Friday prayer sermons on 27 December 2018: “The British government nevertheless It was in the service of our enemies, it was in the service of Saddam; From the very first day, that is, after the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA, when these three governments were constantly talking and gossiping, I said that I do not trust them, they will not do anything, they will serve the United States”.