TEHRAN – Many countries conduct bioterrorism attacks to advance their economic goals, so such attacks are always probable, head of the Civil Defense Organization said on Saturday.

In an interview with IRNA, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali said bioterrorism is used to weaken the infrastructures of a government, warning that such threats have also targeted commanders, authorities and leaders of different countries.

“Yasser Arafat, former president of the Palestinian National Authority, and Hugo Chavez, former president of Venezuela, were supposedly killed through bioterrorism,” Jalali added.

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