Info:
The DCRL provides chemical-related analytical and equipment testing and manufacturing services to Iran’s military. It’s also one of the OPCW’s global networks of validation laboratories, meaning that it is equipped and certified to produce and handle the most toxic nerve agents. The DCRL’s status as an official OPCW laboratory also means that the DRCL is subject to OPCW access and monitoring, so it’s not a clandestine facility by any stretch;
Address for the DCRL: at the 27th kilometer of the Karaj Special Road, which leads out from Tehran’s western suburbs to the satellite city of Karaj. It’s the well-known location of a notorious industrial complex owned by the Shahid Meisami Group;
Shahid Meisami’s remit is almost exactly the same as DCRL’s: it’s a military-associated pharmaceutical and chemical facility involved in production of equipment for defence against chemical and biological weapons. And sometimes Shahid Meisami’s work is rather more than defensive: in 2019 the United States specifically called out the Shahid Meisami Group for producing munitions capable of dispersing debilitating chemicals;
Involved In:
Nuclear Weapon Program
Missile Weapon Program
Also Known As:
DCRL
Country:
Iran
Address:
27th kilometer of the Karaj Special Road
Website:
www.dcrl.ir
E-mail:
info@dcrl.ir
Reason for the color:
» Defence Chemical Research Laboratory and SPND involved in research on Novichok chemical agents;