Iraqi mustard-gas attack strikes Sardasht

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.

Iran said Iraqi helicopters fired chemical rockets in its northwestern region on 26 June, injuring more than 60 people. The account was submitted to the UN as the attacks on Sardasht were also being...

Iran reported Iraqi air attacks on Sardasht on 28 and 29 June and said chemical agents had harmed residents. Later letters updated the reported casualty figures, which are treated as contemporaneous...

Reagan sent Gorbachev a message urging agreement on ceasefire enforcement measures, including a possible arms embargo, as Security Council diplomacy advanced.

Iran reported that Iraqi aircraft bombed the outskirts of Sardasht on 1 July. The town’s exposure became a focus of Iranian diplomatic efforts and international concern over chemical weapons and...

Javad Zarif reported that Sardasht’s chemical-attack death toll had risen to 35 and expressed surprise that the Security Council had not acted. This was an interim Iranian count.