Topic Reading-Vol.1824-4/9/2017

Dear MEL Topic Readers,

Saudi Arabia, Iran, others react to US strike in Syria

Didn’t Syrian administration, or President, know that chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction, or WMDs? There is an arms control agreement called the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, which prohibits the development, production, stockpiling and use of such weapons.

If 1993 was too old to remember, what about the defiant then Iraq president Saddam Hussein’s incredibly quick fall in 2003 when his troops were defeated by US-led allied forces, which took only three weeks until the capital fell. The regime was attacked and destroyed based on an intelligent suspicion that the country had developed and kept weapons of mass destruction, which evidence wasn’t found after the invasion.

Now Syrian aircraft used chemical weapon to its civilians. The US reacted very quickly to this barbarian act by firing 59 guided missiles from its warships to hit military facilities. While this act was accused by a few countries that have interest in the current Syrian regime and opponents of the US, many countries in the region and the world expressed their support to this decisive action.

Enjoy reading and learning about the reactions to the use of chemical weapons.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/saudi-arabia-iran-react-strike-syria-170407054521418.html