MEES reports NIOC’s netback supply deal with Shell

Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi presented the 1986–87 budget draft to the Majlis. Its projected $18.9 billion oil income shows the importance of export earnings to wartime finances.

A Syrian delegation’s Tehran visit ended with agreement on future Iranian oil supplies. The arrangement tied Syria’s energy needs to its alliance with Iran.

Reagan met senior advisers about further arms sales to Iran. Shultz and Weinberger objected on legal and policy grounds, while the initiative remained under consideration.

Amiram Nir presented a plan involving an initial Israeli shipment of 500 TOW missiles to Iran and hoped-for hostage releases. The proposal sought to restart the channel after the troubled HAWK...

Iraqi forces launched an attack on the contested islands captured in part by Iran in 1984. Control of Majnoon mattered for access to the southern front and the marshlands; the fighting demonstrated...

The assault concluded after several days of fighting. The contested position remained central to subsequent operations, while Iran prepared a major southern offensive toward al-Faw that would become...

MEES reported agreement to raise Iran–Turkey trade exchanges to $3 billion in 1986 after Turgut Ozal’s Tehran visit. Regional commerce offered Iran an important wartime supply connection.

Reagan signed a revised intelligence finding authorizing third parties to transfer weapons to Iran. The decision underpinned the direct U.S. arms transactions that followed in 1986.

An Iranian letter reported alleged Iraqi chemical weapons use on 31 January. The chronology dates Iran’s formal complaint on 4 February, keeping the claimed attack date separate.

Iran launched a separate operation in the Kurdish sector, distinct from the 1983 operation with the same name. The campaign sought to exploit difficult mountain terrain, but the northern front...