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Syrian Chemical Weapons Program Is Operational Again, under Iranian Control
(MEMRI) Syrian businessman Firas Tlass, son of former Minister of Defense Mustafa Tlass, told Al-Arabiya on March 24, 2021, that certain areas in Syria are completely under Iranian or Hizbullah control, and that President Assad does not know what is happening there. He said that weapons and missiles parts are hidden in vegetable trucks and then transferred into Hizbullah-controlled territories in southern Syria and Lebanon. He added that Iran has complete control over the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center, charged with creating biological and chemical weapons. "The Iranians took over the research center so that the Russians would not take it over instead - particularly following the joke of 'handing over the chemical weapons.' Of course only a small part of the chemical weapons was handed over, and the rest was redistributed among many depots....Of course the Syrian chemical weapons program is operational once again."