Saeed Saeed, head of the Institution for the Development of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industries, said the center was previously used by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) but now works on pharmaceutical products."
Since the Syria crisis broke out, the country has been short of all kinds of medicines due to the sanctions from Western countries. Foreign companies stopped exporting high-quality medicines to Syria, especially anti-cancer medicines. So we have been conducting researches on anti-cancer medicines here, and three cancer drugs have been developed," he said.
Granted, PressTV is an Iranian news source. And so, there are certainly reasons for its reporters to conjure up some sob story much like the West's own "think of the children" gas baby meme, to turn the public to its side. But read on:
Saeed noted that he could not have stayed at the research center after the strikes if it had contained chemical weapons, as claimed by the US and its allies. "If there were chemical weapons in the building, we would not be here. My colleagues and I came here at 05:00 this morning. If there were chemical weapons, we would need to wear masks and take other protective measures to be staying here," he said.
That's an interesting point, and it makes you think: if you strike a so-called chemical-production facility, do you not release chemicals into the air that spread death and disease? So how is it that these strikes were carried out without mass casualties from the toxic fumes, if the attacks destroyed chemical weapons facilities? Nobody has answered that one.
