Baghdad, Sept. 15 (ANI): Iraq has rejected a Syrian opposition general's claim that the Syrian government moved parts of its chemical weapons to Baghdad.
Ali al-Mosawi, a media adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said that part of the Syrian opposition claimed that the Syrian regime transferred parts of its chemical weapons to Iraq in an attempt to tarnish the image of the country, whose people was a victim of the weapons.
He denied the news and said that it was a cheap propaganda. He urged the parties to work in favor of Syria and the Syrian people and do not turn out to be the horns and tools in the hands of some foreign countries, hich aimed to worsen the reputations of Iraq.
He added that Iraq is against the possession of these weapons and other weapons of mass destruction anywhere in the world and under any pretext.
Recently, Salim Idriss, general of the rebel Free Syrian Army, said he had intelligence showing the Syrian government was moving chemical materials and chemical weapons to Lebanon and Iraq. (ANI)
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