Iran dates an Iraqi attack on Nowruz oil wells

Resolution 37/98 D requested investigations of possible Geneva Protocol violations, expert and laboratory lists, and procedures for prompt evidence collection. Iran later invoked this authority.

Khomeini directed judicial and executive officials to respect legal safeguards against arbitrary arrest, confiscation and intrusion. The wartime decree expressed rules for state conduct; it did not...

Iran reported Iraqi long-range missiles hitting populated areas of Dezful. The attack underscored the continuing vulnerability of Khuzestan’s cities after major Iranian battlefield gains.

Iranian forces opened an offensive in the southern sector. The operation sought to break Iraqi defenses but failed, demonstrating that Iran’s post-1982 cross-border offensives faced formidable...

The offensive in the Musian area concluded without achieving its principal objective. Iran continued to mobilize volunteers and conduct repeated offensives, while Iraq increasingly relied on defensive...

Iran’s delegation said it would continue the war despite Indira Gandhi’s appeal for peace. Competing Iranian and Iraqi demands complicated the Non-Aligned summit.

Iran demanded that Iraq apologize for bombing its oil wells. Both countries had agreed to attend pollution talks but had not accepted a ceasefire for repairs.

Iran began a central-front offensive near Amara. It was one of several 1983 operations that attempted to penetrate Iraqi territory but made no decisive change to the front, adding to the war’s...

The April offensive ended without a decisive breakthrough. Repeated Iranian ground assaults and Iraq’s defensive system produced a prolonged war of attrition, with neither side able to convert...

Rafsanjani’s diary records a missile strike on Dezful the previous night. His account describes debate over retaliation and Khomeini’s instruction to exercise patience.