{"id":36621,"date":"2021-01-03T10:43:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T18:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=36621"},"modified":"2021-01-03T10:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T18:43:24","slug":"opcw-chief-dodges-questions-on-syria-coverup-after-new-leaks-attacks-on-whistleblowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/03\/opcw-chief-dodges-questions-on-syria-coverup-after-new-leaks-attacks-on-whistleblowers\/","title":{"rendered":"OPCW Chief Dodges Questions on Syria Coverup After New Leaks, Attacks on Whistleblowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9 at <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, OPCW chief Fernando Arias was asked a series of direct questions at the United Nations about the cover-up of a Syria chemical weapons probe. He answered none of them.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s UN ambassador asked Arias about several damning leaks, some revealed by The Grayzone, as well as ongoing deceptive attacks on the veteran scientists who challenged the censorship of their investigation. Arias refused to answer in public session, and gave vague, non-substantive answers in private.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Mat\u00e9 recaps the unanswered questions to Arias, as well as recent attacks on the OPCW whistleblowers via Western state-funded outlets Bellingcat and the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yLv8-kviksY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/grayzone\">Support The Grayzone at Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9 at The Grayzone: For the first time, OPCW chief Fernando Arias was asked a series of direct questions at the United Nations about the cover-up of a Syria chemical weapons probe. He answered none of them. Russia\u2019s UN ambassador asked Arias about several damning leaks, some revealed by The Grayzone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-36621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36621"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36624,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621\/revisions\/36624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36621"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}