Baghdad cable reports possible Bell helicopter sale

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.

NSDD 139 directed a plan to avert Iraqi collapse and strengthened U.S. Gulf readiness. For Iran, the policy showed Washington’s determination to prevent a decisive Iranian victory.

Brown & Root announced a contract for an Iraqi oil-export pipeline project bypassing Hormuz. Alternative routes could sustain Iraq’s revenues despite wartime disruption.

Iran held parliamentary elections while the war continued. Candidate screening and the Freedom Movement’s boycott accompanied the vote, reflecting limits and disputes within wartime political life.

Iraq warned shipping companies that it would continue attacks on tankers using Iran’s Kharg terminal. The threat targeted the maritime network sustaining Iranian oil income.

Iran’s UN representative transmitted a Foreign Ministry letter dated 11 May concerning alleged chemical attacks and attacks on commercial vessels. The event date is the covering submission of 14 May.

An unidentified aircraft attacked the Kuwaiti tanker Bahra. Competing accounts of tanker attacks complicated attribution as the conflict spread to regional commercial shipping.

Iran held the second round of its 1984 parliamentary elections. The vote continued selection of a legislature responsible for laws, ministerial approval and oversight during the war.