Lets just get some facts straight about the "Iranian chemical weapons sent to Libya" story: Iran did not have and did not use chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war contrary to the Iraqi/US propaganda at the time.
More on this story at Moon of Alabama:
The whole piece is just constructed anti-Iran propaganda. Not astonishingly it was co-written by Joby Warrick, the WaPo's Judith Miller equivalent, who also recently spread the false "Soviet nuclear scientist" stories about an expert in nanodiamond production who once worked in Iran.
Iran is a party in good standing to the anti-chemical weapons convention. The US has sought to undermine and weaken OPCW, by unlawfully removing its head Bustani who questioned US claims about Iraqi WMDs, to to mention that the US was complicit in Iraq's chemical weapons program.
The media of course is hyperventilating over government-issued innuendo that Iran gave chemical weapons shells to Qaddafi (or to be more exact, shells that were used to contain chemical weapons -- not that such nuance will be noticed in the up-coming screaming headlines) and naturally the mouthpieces aka "journalists" will do their job of further embellishing the story and contributing to the hype by ultimately accusing Iran of having a chemical weapons program. Indeed, Qaddafi did not have very good relations with Iran, and stood accused of murdering Musa Sadr, a significant Shiite cleric and religious leader.
In fact, this story about Libyan chemical weapons is about a month old - Joby Warrick is only now putting the Iran angle on it.
Who has armed Libya?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/01/eu-arms-exports-libya
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/china-offered-gadhafi-huge-stockpiles-of-arms-libyan-memos/article2152875/
http://mediaroots.org/us-sold-$40-b-in-arms-sales-to-countries-including-libya-and-egypt-in-2009.php
Posted by: Tim | November 21, 2011 at 12:09 PM