Iraqi air attack damages Tehran’s refinery

Madarshahi informed the UN of alleged chemical artillery fire at Sardasht on 11 January, reporting injuries without a precise casualty total.

Iranian forces launched a winter offensive in the Mawat area, seeking high ground and bargaining leverage. The operation made limited gains and showed that Tehran continued to seek battlefield...

The offensive in the Mawat area ended after Iranian forces secured some high ground but failed to transform the front. Limited results and heavy costs reinforced the strategic deadlock of the war’s...

Iran and New Zealand reached an agreement exchanging Iranian crude for meat and dairy products. The arrangement used oil to obtain food while Iran faced wartime economic constraints.

Shultz proposed a mandatory embargo with a thirty-day delay during Moscow talks. Shevardnadze stressed Soviet concerns over Iraq’s staying power and the U.S. Gulf fleet.

Reports described Iraqi bombing of a Tehran hospital and the first reported Iraqi missile attack on the capital. Iran had fired missiles at Baghdad earlier that day.

Pérez de Cuéllar called for an end to attacks during renewed escalation. His intervention pressed for restraint while implementation of the broader UN peace plan remained unresolved.

Lord Trefgarne said Britain favored a further Security Council resolution imposing an arms embargo on Iran to secure implementation of Resolution 598.

Iraqi missiles struck populated neighborhoods of Tehran. Iran answered with a missile at Baghdad and reported attacking an Iraqi launch site as urban exchanges continued.

Iranian protesters hurled rocks and firebombs at the Soviet embassy in Tehran. Demonstrators blamed foreign arms supplies for Iraq’s attacks on Iranian cities.