Velayati criticizes international handling of the war

Iran’s letter to the Conference on Disarmament reported an alleged Iraqi chemical attack near Piranshahr. The record dates the letter, not its later circulation on 13 February.

Missile and air attacks on urban centres intensified during the first half of February. Iranian civilians faced the direct effects of a conflict that increasingly targeted cities as well as military...

The Secretary-General wrote to Iran’s foreign minister about a proposed fact-finding mission. International documentation of wartime harm was an important part of Tehran’s diplomatic campaign.

The ICRC issued another memorandum concerning prisoner protections in the conflict. Its continuing appeals showed that previous interventions had not settled humanitarian concerns.

Iran’s UN correspondence reported Iraqi missiles damaging homes, a hospital and a school in Dezful. The account documents Iranian claims about harm to civilian services.

Iran launched two linked offensives along a broad front between Mehran and Bostan. The attacks aimed to stretch Iraqi defenses and secure strategic ground; they formed part of a costly cycle of...

Iranian jets attacked Baghdad’s outskirts and a nearby city in retaliation for Iraqi raids. Iraqi reporting described civilian casualties, exposing the harm of reciprocal urban attacks.

Velayati told the Conference on Disarmament that Iranian chemical casualties exposed a gap between treaty negotiations and effective protection against chemical warfare.

The period of intensified attacks on cities ended without a durable settlement or effective protection for civilians. The escalation showed how each side used urban bombardment to impose costs and...

The linked offensives ended after a large-scale advance along the central front. Their limited results contrasted with Iran’s simultaneous major push toward Basra and the Majnoon Islands, illustrating...