Report describes life under missile alerts in Tehran

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.

Iran voted in the first round of parliamentary elections during the war’s final spring. Rival factions within the Islamic Republic competed while military and economic pressures mounted.

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

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.

Iran transmitted a chart of alleged chemical attacks since the beginning of the war. The compilation organized Tehran’s evidence and accusations for consideration by the United Nations.

Saudi Arabia announced severing diplomatic ties with Iran. The rupture followed the Mecca crisis and years of hostility over Saudi support for Iraq.