Iran hosts international mine-action roundtable

An OPCW symposium in The Hague opened discussions on treating chemical-weapons victims. Iranian experience and survivor participation informed the exchange among clinicians and civil society.

Iran received 60 soldiers’ remains recovered in Iraq. Tasnim reported that the search committee had located them in Diyala province.

A Tehran course concluded after training medical professionals in chemical-emergency care. Participants encountered Iranian expertise and long-term chemical-war patients.

The Iranian Red Crescent and ICRC opened Repatriation Flight, combining wartime prisoner-return photographs with art at the Red Crescent’s museum in Tehran.

Iran’s OPCW working paper argued that assistance mechanisms and support for chemical-weapons victims remained inadequate. It proposed stronger resources and practical cooperation.

An ICRC-supervised handover at Shalamcha returned 44 Iranian soldiers’ remains, continuing cross-border recovery of those missing from the war.

Researchers analyzed long-term lung, skin and eye complications in 64,190 registered Iranian chemical-war survivors. The database study highlighted continuing health burdens decades after exposure.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Baharvand discussed the pandemic’s effects on chemical-weapons victims with the OPCW director-general, keeping survivors’ needs on the diplomatic agenda.

A hospital cohort paper reported higher mortality among COVID-19 patients with prior sulfur-mustard exposure. Its observational findings concern the sampled hospitalized patients.

An ICRC-supported exchange at Shalamcha returned the remains of 20 Iranian soldiers to Iran and 11 Iraqi soldiers to Iraq.