Forensic adviser attends wartime exhumations in Iraq

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.

The Dutch Supreme Court upheld van Anraat’s war crimes complicity conviction. It reduced his seventeen-year sentence by six months because of the length of proceedings.

Iranian survivor associations presented an exhibit at the OPCW, bringing the human consequences of chemical attacks into an international disarmament forum.

An ICRC-documented operation repatriated the remains of Iranian soldiers killed in the war at the Shalamcha border, continuing the search for answers long after the ceasefire.

The European Court of Human Rights declared Frans van Anraat’s application inadmissible. The case concerned his conviction for assisting chemical attacks, including attacks in Iran.

Iranian authorities visited ICRC headquarters in Geneva and received documents relating to the 1980-88 war as part of the Imam Sajjad project.

Iran’s OPCW proposal outlined an international support network, including medical-needs information, research and voluntary assistance for chemical-weapons victims.