Operation Kheibar concludes after Iran captures part of Majnoon

U.S. instructions sought a no-decision motion on Iran’s chemical weapons draft at the UN Human Rights Commission, with abstention as a fallback. The venue was the Commission, not a Security Council...

UN specialists surveyed two sites in the war zone, examined aerial bombs, collected samples and interviewed patients in a field hospital and Ahvaz, linking physical and clinical evidence.

The UN team examined patients in Tehran hospitals and performed preliminary laboratory tests on samples collected in the war zone, comparing clinical observations with physical evidence.

UN specialists examined aerial bombs brought from the war zone to Tehran and visited the coroner’s mortuary, expanding the evidence examined during their chemical-weapons inquiry.

The UN team examined patients at Tafti Stadium Infirmary in Ahvaz, received samples and later interviewed patients in a Tehran hospital, extending its clinical investigation.

Before further Baghdad talks, Rumsfeld requested a list of countries approached about arms transfers to Iran and the status of each approach. The cable documents Washington’s campaign to constrain...

A U.S. UN mission cable described British and Dutch efforts toward a Security Council response to chemical warfare and Iraq’s request for restraint. The discussion followed the UN experts’ report.

Nizar Hamdoon told James Placke that Iraq preferred a Security Council presidential statement without naming a responsible state. Placke said Washington could accept a statement if Council consensus...

A State Department briefing announced licensing controls for five chemical compounds exported to Iran and Iraq. Applying the restrictions to both sides did not itself establish Iranian chemical...

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati visited Japan in April 1984, maintaining a diplomatic channel during the continuing war.