Iranian gas agreement with Bulgaria announced

Fuel oil from Abadan was shipped through Mahshahr after a long wartime interruption. The shipment marked a practical step from refinery reconstruction toward renewed export activity.

Iran filed a case against the United States over the destruction of Iran Air Flight 655, pursuing international legal redress for the deaths.

An international expert meeting in Geneva addressed the exchange of Iranian and Iraqi prisoners. Its communiqué urged attention to captives still held after the ceasefire.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died, ending the leadership of the Islamic Republic’s founder shortly after the war. His death created an immediate succession challenge.

Iran’s Assembly of Experts selected Ali Khamenei to succeed Khomeini. The change placed reconstruction under a new supreme leader.

Iran and the Soviet Union signed a long-term trade, economic and technical cooperation agreement in Moscow, providing a framework for the postwar development relationship.

MEES reported Iranian crude production above 2.9 million barrels daily in June. The entry dates the report, rather than inventing a day on which recovery first occurred.

Iranians voted in the presidential election in which Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was the leading candidate. This entry records polling, not a same-day final results announcement.

Iranian voters were asked to approve constitutional amendments alongside the presidential election, reshaping the institutions that would oversee reconstruction.

MEES reported a forecast allocating $4.8 billion to food and consumer-goods imports. This was a planned use of foreign exchange, not an audited spending total.