Iran alleges a chemical attack on troops near Baneh

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...

After mines damaged ships in the Gulf, the United States sought minesweepers and European NATO governments reconsidered their earlier refusal. Responsibility for the mines was disputed; the incident...

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 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...

A U.S. arms survey listed no American sales to Iran or Iraq for 1981-85. An ACDA official explained that covert operations were excluded, limiting what its published figures could establish.

Iran sent the UN statements attributed to four Iraqi pilot prisoners of war, who said they had been threatened and compelled to use chemical weapons. Iraq later rejected the statements and said the...

Iran charged that Iraqi forces used suffocating and nerve agents on 21 June in areas around Mawut, reporting about 120 injured. The UN Yearbook identifies the reported locations and delivery by...

Iranian gunboats were reported to have attacked two supertankers after renewed Iraqi shipping strikes. The expanding tanker war endangered neutral vessels as well as Iranian exports.