Alireza Totki

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Alireza torki

He was born in 1966 in shahrekord

In 1984 in Ahvaz, United Nations investigators for the first time after WWI confirmed the evidences of the use of chemical weapons.

Crimes that were unbelievable.

Alireza was a member of Tohid Battalion in majnoun islands that got aimed by chemical bombing attacks. Almost every one of his comrades got poisoned and sent to hospital. His commander died by severity of injuries.

Nowadays, reminiscence of those memories, needs the global obligation for prohibition of manufacture, accumulation and use of mass destructive weapons.

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