Bioweapon laboratories, which Iran has been working on for decades, can become an unintended mark of the American-Israeli attack," claims the renowned American medical portal Statnews. According to him, released pathogens, intentionally or accidentally, will be much more lethal than COVID-19.
The war with Iran focused the planet on atomic weapons and oil. However, there is simply a 3rd category of threats for which the United States is far little prepared than most people are aware – the portal claims. Iran, which is highly likely, has the possible to produce biological weapons and has been the position of the US administration for many years.
In a fresh report, the U.S. Department of State stated that Iran "preserved flexibility in using, at the request of leaders, investigation to produce lethal biological weapons".
A akin assessment was issued before the ongoing war by American intelligence, who felt that Iran "presumably intends to proceed investigation into chemical and biological agents for offensive purposes". But besides earlier, due to the fact that in 2019, the United Against atomic Iran's United Against the improvement of Iran's Chemical and Biological Weapons Program was respected.
The Washington NGO Foundation for defence of Democracys (FDD) reported in January that the government could usage poisonous chemicals against Iranian protesters during this year's repression.
In Iran's case, the problem is that laboratories carrying out work on these weapons are located in the buildings of universities associated with the military, in investigation centres associated with the muslim Revolutionary defender Corps, and in pharmaceutical and biotechnological institutions of dual use, as the British think tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) pointed out 3 days ago.
Some of these facilities were already targeted by American-Israeli attacks. According to Statnews, "we do not have reliable data on what kind of biological material was in the affected areas, what was destroyed and what was dispersed, or what dangers the surrounding areas are presently exposed to."
The United States may not know what their missiles have hit, nor do they know what is going on with the pathogens already produced, whether they are being moved elsewhere, or whether they lie scattered among the ruins of destroyed buildings.
At the end of December last year, Iran International's emigration service observed, citing military sources, that "the Iranian muslim Revolutionary defender Corps (IRGC) is developing biological and chemical warheads for long-range ballistic missiles, and these actions have accelerated in fresh months due to Tehran's concerns about the anticipation of another direct confrontation with Israel and the United States".
The consequences of the usage of specified weapons, or even the uncontrolled release of pathogens from vials, would be incomparable with the harm that the disruption of oil markets or COVID-19 has brought. The latter, although not optimised for mortality, took thousands of lives, while pumping tens of billions of dollars out of the global economy," experts say.
APW, PAP
