Iran brings the Flight 655 case to the ICJ

MEES reported that Iran’s approved budget permitted foreign loans, marking an avenue for financing reconstruction rather than a record of money already received.

Iran announced commissioning of the first phase of the rebuilt Abadan refinery. Partial restoration returned domestic refining capacity after years of wartime damage.

Ayatollah Khomeini established a commission to revise Iran’s constitution as the country entered its postwar political transition.

Iran signed an Arak refinery construction contract with a Japanese-Italian consortium. The proposed 150,000-barrel daily capacity was planned capacity, not operating output.

Fuel oil from Abadan was shipped through Mahshahr after a long wartime interruption. The shipment marked a practical step from refinery reconstruction toward renewed export activity.

An international expert meeting in Geneva addressed the exchange of Iranian and Iraqi prisoners. Its communiqué urged attention to captives still held after the ceasefire.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died, ending the leadership of the Islamic Republic’s founder shortly after the war. His death created an immediate succession challenge.

Iran’s Assembly of Experts selected Ali Khamenei to succeed Khomeini. The change placed reconstruction under a new supreme leader.

An agreement was announced for Bulgaria to import Iranian gas through the Soviet Union. The arrangement concerned planned supply, not proof of completed annual deliveries.

Iran and the Soviet Union signed a long-term trade, economic and technical cooperation agreement in Moscow, providing a framework for the postwar development relationship.