Iran introduces gasoline rationing

Rajaie Khorassani reported alleged chemical attacks on Sheikh Salah, Javanrood and Bamoo Heights on 8 September, promising further details of casualties and weapons.

A contact described in the Walsh report as Rafsanjani’s nephew began meetings in Washington. The 19–20 September talks developed another sequence of arms deliveries and hostage releases.

Shultz and Shevardnadze discussed efforts to stop the war without victors or vanquished. Soviet diplomacy with both sides had produced no settlement, according to the record.

The operation around al-Faw and Majnoon concluded without a decisive breakthrough. Iran held its major al-Faw gain, but the wider conflict remained an exhausting contest over exposed positions and...

In Bahrain, Iran’s oil minister backed a $19-per-barrel target by year’s end. Iran sought stronger prices as reduced market income intensified pressure on the wartime budget.

U.S. participants and the second Iranian channel met in Frankfurt on 6–8 October. Negotiations continued over linked arms deliveries and hostage releases as the first channel lost its role.

Resolution 588 urged Iran and Iraq to implement Resolution 582 without delay and asked the Secretary-General to intensify his efforts. The Council continued seeking a settlement while combat...

Turkish officials said normal Iraqi oil flows continued despite Iran’s claims about strikes at Kirkuk. Competing accounts showed the strategic importance of export infrastructure.

Five hundred U.S.-made TOW missiles held in Israel were delivered to Iran through the second channel. Public exposure of the secret initiative followed within days.

The Lebanese publication Al-Shiraa reported McFarlane’s secret visit to Tehran. The disclosure brought Iran’s covert U.S. arms contacts into public view and destabilized the initiative.