WATCH: Former senior IRGC official claims Iran built chemical, biological weapons February 9, 2025General (Ret.) Mohsen Rafighdoost, former minister of the IRGC, stated that Iran stopped short of building an atomic weapon and claimed that Iran is defensively independent and integral to the line of opposition—from China, through India and Iran, to Russia—against the United States. Chemical weaponsIran nuclear threatIRGCMohsen RafighdoostWeapons