Sardasht long-term mortality study published

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.

Iraq’s ministry reported the return of 57 Iranian soldiers’ remains, alongside four Iraqi remains, in an exchange earlier that week.

An ICRC-assisted exchange returned 72 Iranian soldiers’ remains through Shalamcheh, continuing recovery work more than three decades after the war.

The ICRC documented another Iran-Iraq handover of remains from the 1980–88 war. Families continued seeking answers decades after the ceasefire.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Reza Najafi told the OPCW director-general that sanctions impaired care for Iranian chemical-weapons victims. The reported impact was his attributed claim.

Iran Press reported that 111 Iranian soldiers’ remains entered Iran by the Arvandrud waterway, welcomed by people of Abadan and Khorramshahr.

People in Ahvaz attended a funeral for 111 recently returned soldiers after Friday prayers, following their transfer from Iraq through the Arvand River.

Six unidentified war dead arrived at Shahid Madani Airport in Tabriz, where residents welcomed their remains, according to Iran Press.