NOURNEWS - Major General Sayed Yahya Safavi, Assistant and Senior Advisor to the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces held a lecture on civil defense strategies and policies to promote national resilience in Baqiyatallah University of Medical Science and said: "Today, Halabja is known as the world's largest chemical genocide accompanied by the silence of the mass media and pro-human rights organizations and the green light of Americans and Europeans.".
He added that the UN Security Council's response to the Iraqi Ba'athist regime's use of banned chemical weapons in the form of statements was so biased, so gentle and so supportive that it was in no way in line with the depth and breadth of the Iraqi regime's inhumane crimes.
Assistant and Senior Adviser of the Armed Forces continued to offer strategic proposals and policies for civilian and military defense in the direction of promoting national resilience and said: counter Corona also needs the design and implementation of a comprehensive chemical and biological defense system using the knowledge, experience and scientific capability of physicians and internal medicine specialists and the use of other countries experiences, that also can strengthens and develops capacity. National defensive preparations are proposed to counter potential chemical, bio-terrorist and eco-terrorist threats due to destruction of the natural resources of the environment, and also agro-terrorism designed to destroy public health and food security.
He continued: "The chemical base must prepare the necessary plans and instructions at the national level and the armed forces to manage possible accidents, especially in the demographic areas."
He added: "Creating and developing an integrated and intelligent environmental monitoring system from borders to cities to Disclosure, discovery and diagnosis alerts and evaluate and control the management of various chemical, microbial and environmental threats are other effective measures." The sector is in line with military and civilian defense policies to promote national resilience that needs to be addressed.
Regarding the need to pay attention to the educational departments and the organization of medical centers, the Supreme Adviser of the Supreme Leader added: "Prioritizing the educational and information departments and organizing the human resources and equipment of the public and armed forces to deal with all kinds of threats and Organizing fixed and mobile multifunctional medical centers is advanced and equipped to treat the inevitable casualties.
Referring to the gap in the necessary laws and regulations in this regard, he said: the gap of laws and notifications related to the systems and technical requirements of passive defense should be compensated in the country's infrastructure projects within the framework of technical and engineering system of passive defense.
He added: "Organizing various industries of chemical defense and strengthening and developing production centers and new technologies to build the necessary equipment and strengthening and developing the network of national and military laboratories for multi-purpose and reference laboratories with the ability to detect any chemicals." And the germs that cause public health, or the environment, or food, or air pollution, need to be addressed in the implementation of civilian and military defense policies.
Emphasizing the importance of diplomacy in the field of chemical defense, he added:
The development of chemical defense diplomacy and the confrontation with Corona must be considered and implemented in order to deepen relations with neighboring countries and governments and to transfer experiences on a regional, continental in global scale.
He also added: "Specialized training and training of human resources in proportion to the volume of relevant threats through design and implementation and development of longitudinal and transverse educational systems for all students and universities of medical sciences is a necessity."
Explaining the need for integrated management and command by the Chemical Defense Camp at the time of possible accidents, General Safavi said: "Biological and health and chemical defense as a defensive field in future biological battles." It is known that the structure of the health system in the armed forces should be upgraded with the functions of medical and health education, research and research of health services, medicine and medical equipment and meeting its requirements as a new structure of the Armed Forces Health and Biological Defense Command.
Expressing the need to establish a command center for control and control of biological threats and health crisis in the GHQ of the Armed Forces, He said: Biological threats and microbial and chemical agents, the Center for Command and Control of Biological Threats and Health Crises should be formed in the GHQ of the Armed Forces.
Expressing the strategic nature of the supply and distribution of drugs and vaccines for the country, General Safavi said: " Given the strategic supply and distribution of medicine, vaccines and medical equipment in the country, the government is committed to strengthening and financially supporting research centers and new technologies in the private and public sectors and the armed forces to produce vaccines, drugs and medical equipment in the field. Adapt to the threats of Corona, Bio-Terrorism-Agro-Terrorism and Eco-Terrorism to increase national authority and resilience to counter possible threats to future civilian defense and increase the national security of our country and our beloved nation."
FARS