Mines in the Gulf prompt new calls for international minesweepers

An Iraqi aircraft fired two Exocet missiles at the U.S. frigate USS Stark, killing 37 American sailors and injuring 21. The attack showed how Iraq’s air campaign and the Tanker War could draw...

TASS reported that a Soviet tanker had struck a mine off Kuwait. The incident exposed Soviet-linked commercial shipping to the hazards of the Gulf war.

Iraq protested that the UN mission and Council noted Iraqi chemical injuries without concluding that Iran caused them. Kittani demanded a stronger attribution than the investigators had made.

Velayati thanked the UN specialists but criticized the Council’s response, urging political action, chemical export restraints and continued scrutiny of Iraq’s access to chemical agents.

The 12-member European Community expressed concern that the Geneva Protocol had repeatedly been violated, urged an immediate end to chemical-weapons use, and called for restraint in the Gulf and an...

Japanese Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari visited Iran and appealed for an early end to the war, adding another diplomatic channel alongside UN efforts.

Iran told the UN that Iraqi aircraft dropped chemical bombs on Sarsool and Bolhassan villages in Baneh on 7 May, wounding 92 people. The number is attributed to the Iranian report reproduced in the UN...

Britain ordered Iran’s Manchester consulate closed and expelled diplomats after the detention of Edward Chaplin in Tehran. Diplomatic confrontation deepened during the war.

Iran alleged that Iraqi artillery attacked a brigade of the Malteh battalion near Baneh with chemical weapons on 24 May. The allegation was part of a continuing series of reports submitted to the UN.

Iran complained that chemical shells were fired at Iranian positions in the Husseiniyeh operational theatre on 14 June. Tehran argued that the repeated attacks required a stronger international...