Iraqi overflights trigger alarms in Tehran

NSDD 114 directed allied consultations and readiness to protect Gulf oil facilities and keep Hormuz open. The directive’s priorities placed Iran’s maritime conflict within wider U.S. strategic...

Iran’s representative reported further civilian attacks and renewed a request for a UN investigation. The event is the diplomatic submission; the letter does not independently verify each reported...

Donald Rumsfeld told Saddam Hussein that Washington and Baghdad shared interests in preventing Iranian and Syrian expansion. He described U.S. efforts to restrict arms transfers to Iran.

A State Department memorandum recommended Export-Import Bank financing for Iraq. It argued that credit could support Iraq’s economy and demonstrate U.S. support during the war.

A cable to Rumsfeld’s party outlined follow-up steps on the Iran–Iraq war, including efforts to curtail arms supplies to Iran. These efforts affected Tehran’s search for wartime military equipment.

Iraq handed 190 Iranian prisoners to the ICRC in Ankara for repatriation. The ICRC stated that 87 were severely wounded or sick.

A U.S. memorandum sought decisions on dual-use truck exports and other restrictions for Iraq. It acknowledged that easing controls could reinforce perceptions of a U.S. tilt against Iran.

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.