Iranian war remains are repatriated at Shalamcha

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.

An ICRC forensic adviser attended exhumations of people missing from the Iran-Iraq War in Basra and Nasiriyah at the Iraqi authorities’ invitation.

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

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.

Iran returned the remains of 38 Iraqi soldiers, according to an Iraqi ministry release reproduced in the ICRC’s customary-law database. The act addressed war-dead recovery.

OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü visited Iranian medical facilities and met chemical-attack survivors during talks with Iran’s foreign minister.