Brigadier General Reza Tale Nik, a spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Defense and deputy director of the ministry on planning and parliamentary issues, provided an explanation of the possible process of Iran’s registration with the CCW.
Usually called CCW, the “convention or restriction of the use of certain conventional weapons that may be considered excessively harmful is a means of international humanitarian law with the aim of prohibiting or restricting the use of certain types of weapons that do not affect citizens or are not thought to affect non-existent suffering.
The Iranian parliament has begun working on a bill that will allow the state to become signatories of the treaty.
CCW has five protocols:
Brigadier General Tale Nick said the parliamentary bill was introduced with approval and under the supervision of Iranian military general staff.
Emphasizing the need to hurry up and make comments about the bill without a detailed review of its content, the spokesman said Iran would ratify only two of the CCW’s five protocols.
He said Iran has decided to thoroughly scrutinize the treaty from military, security and legal aspects and approve only two protocols: Protocol I and V.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said the CCW does not apply to Iranian equipment, ammunition or weapons.
If passed, the parliamentary bill, at the request of the general staff of the Iranian military, would allow the state to ratify only these two protocols, allowing the country to enjoy international and defence benefits such as the 131 political parties signed so far, Talaee Nik added.
CCW’s Protocol I, known as “non-detectable fragments,” prohibits the use of weapons designed to be damaged by fragments that cannot be detected by the human body by X-rays.
Protocol V on the “explosive wreckage of war” prevents and minimizes the humanitarian impact of the misprone faction and abandoned explosive weapons. These include provisions regarding ERW clearance and destruction, measures to protect civilians, the use of explosive weapons, international cooperation and support, and victim support.
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