Iran and USSR formalize long-term cooperation

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.

An agreement was announced for Bulgaria to import Iranian gas through the Soviet Union. The arrangement concerned planned supply, not proof of completed annual deliveries.

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.

MEES reported a preliminary agreement for a joint gas-fired power station in northwestern Iran. Agreement on a proposed project did not mean the station had been built.