Iranian mine center and ICRC reinforce cooperation

OPCW states adopted a decision establishing an international support network and a voluntary trust fund for chemical-weapons victims. The mechanism did not guarantee individual compensation.

UPI reported that joint Iranian-Iraqi work had located and exhumed more than 150 soldiers’ remains, citing the ICRC’s account of cooperation.

A peace-drawing exhibition by Iranian and Japanese children opened at Arasbaran cultural center, organized with the Tehran Peace Museum.

A medical paper on nerve-agent casualty management drew lessons from the Iran-Iraq war and an OPCW assistance exercise. The entry records online publication, not a new wartime incident.

A memorial donated by Iran was unveiled at OPCW headquarters in The Hague. The sculpture honored victims of chemical warfare and made remembrance visible in the institution’s grounds.

The Hague court ordered van Anraat to compensate chemical-attack victims from Iran and Iraq. Civil damages were a separate avenue from the earlier criminal conviction.

A study compared psychological symptoms in mustard-exposed Sardasht civilians and unexposed Rabat participants. Researchers cautioned that the comparison group also experienced wartime trauma.

Iran, Iraq and the ICRC signed documents merging two committees into one body addressing missing persons. The source establishes June, not a specific day.

Tehran Peace Museum and a victims’ society displayed photographs of lasting mustard-gas eye damage during the OPCW conference of 2-6 December.

Tehran Peace Museum board members met the OPCW director-general in The Hague to discuss survivor-led peace outreach and joint publications.