Iran holds the first round of its third Majlis election

The mission examined patients at Bakhtaran’s reception centre and observed and interviewed affected people in Nowdoshe and Nejmal, adding village-level evidence to its hospital work.

Velayati urged the disarmament conference to complete a comprehensive chemical-weapons convention and criticized the lack of effective preventive action after Halabja.

Iran transmitted photographs described as documenting Halabja’s chemical victims and requested a report that could support preventive action. The photographs were evidence submissions, not findings in...

Aziz requested an immediate UN mission to Baghdad to examine soldiers allegedly injured in Iranian chemical attacks in the Halabja sector. The allegation required investigation.

Iraq fired missiles at several Iranian cities, including Isfahan. Iran struck the Iraqi ports of Umm Qasr and Basra as the urban exchange continued.

Dominguez began examining and interviewing patients at Baghdad’s Al Rasheed Military Hospital after Iraq requested an inquiry. Examinations continued the following day.

A contemporary report described Tehran residents enduring alerts and queues for airline tickets. The account reveals attempts to leave and the strain of living under missile attack.

Iran’s representative submitted a letter reporting chemical weapons use. The communication added to the formal record of Iran’s complaints as the fighting intensified in spring 1988.

A later presidential report records $37.9 million in Iranian funds returned from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The release followed arrangements under the Iran–U.S. Claims Tribunal process.

Iran reported alleged Iraqi chemical weapons use on 17 and 18 April. The event dates the formal complaint on 19 April, keeping it distinct from the reported attack dates.