{"id":14690,"date":"2013-09-22T13:13:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T12:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/14690-syria-bashar-al-assad-ordered-me-to-gas-people-but-i-could-not-do-it"},"modified":"2023-01-14T13:54:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T12:54:05","slug":"syria-bashar-al-assad-ordered-me-to-gas-people-but-i-could-not-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/syria-bashar-al-assad-ordered-me-to-gas-people-but-i-could-not-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria: &#8216;Bashar al-Assad ordered me to gas people &#8211; but I could not do it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"zaher-al-sakat\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-40632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/zaher-al-sakat.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px\" \/>The Sunday telegraph &#8211; Few thought that the Syrian regime&#8217;s promise to destroy its chemical weapons would be the end of the story. Brigadier-General Zaher al-Sakat, a former chemical weapons chief in President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s own army, certainly did not.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Sakat says he was ordered three times to use chemical weapons against his own people, but could not go through with it and replaced chemical canisters with ones containing harmless bleach.<\/p>\n<p>He also insists that all such orders had to come from the top \u2013 President Assad himself \u2013 despite insistent denials by the regime that it has never used chemical weapons.<br \/>Now he also claims to have his own intelligence that the Syrian president is evading the terms of a Russian-brokered deal to destroy his chemical weapons by transferring some of his stocks to his allies \u2013 Hizbollah, in Lebanon, and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Sakat spoke to The Sunday Telegraph last week, his first interview with a western newspaper, as Mr Assad confirmed for the first time what he and much of the rest of the world already knew \u2013 that regime possessed a huge arsenal of chemical weapons, and the delivery systems to go along with them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/syria\/10325193\/Syria-Bashar-al-Assad-ordered-me-to-gas-people-but-I-could-not-do-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link to story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brief news on Iran<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9qioDPwEyOU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday telegraph &ndash; Few thought that the Syrian regime&rsquo;s promise to destroy its chemical weapons would be the end of the story. 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