OPCW remembrance material highlights Iranian survivors

ICRC archive documentation identifies a repatriation operation on 17–18 March. Some Iraqi prisoners remained for a separate return in May, so the March operation was not comprehensive.

The ICRC documented a final operation returning Iraqi prisoners from Iran. The unresolved captivity legacy had outlasted the war by nearly fifteen years.

The ICRC handed the remains of two Iraqi soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq War to British authorities at a Basra warehouse, preserving a humanitarian channel after Iraq’s invasion.

The Court rejected the U.S. security justification for the attacks, but did not uphold Iran’s treaty-commerce claim. It also dismissed the U.S. counterclaim.

The Hague District Court convicted Frans van Anraat of complicity in war crimes for supplying a mustard-gas precursor to Iraq and sentenced him to fifteen years. He was acquitted of complicity in...

The Hague Court of Appeal upheld van Anraat’s war crimes complicity conviction and increased his sentence to seventeen years. The case concerned chemical attacks including those on Iranian victims.

Iran, Iraq and the ICRC agreed to cooperate in clarifying missing-person cases from the war. This entry uses the announcement date.

Officials received training in Tehran from the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team to improve identification of recovered remains. Only the month is established.

An international medical-defense course concluded in Iran. Visiting doctors met and examined survivors of chemical warfare, connecting wartime experience with medical training.

An ICRC-documented border handover returned remains from the war. The exchange included 41 Iranian and 200 Iraqi soldiers.