Excerpt from ChemWeapons report regarding Iran’s ChemWeapons of “purposes not prohibited”:
Since 2005, some of lran’s military controlled facilities, Imam Hossein University (IHU) and Malek Ashtar University (MUT), have researched chemical agents intended to incapacitate.
Iran’s PBA (editor’s note: PhenolBarbitol) research includes a wide variety of compounds that have differing sedation, dissociation, and amnestic incapacitating effects.
Published Iranian papers cited the potential weapons applications of the PBAs; one specifically referenced the use of /fentanyl/ (my emph) during the 2002 Dubrovka theater hostage crisis.
In 2014, Iran’s Chemistry Department of IHU sought kilogram quantities of /medetomidine-a/ (editor’s note: the proverbial “knock out a horse” medicine) sedative it has researched as an incapacitant-from Chinese exporters.
The Chemistry Department has little history of veterinary or even medical research and the quantities sought were inconsistent with the reported end use of research
(10,000+ effective doses)
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