Peace convoy meets Iranian chemical-attack survivors

Researchers published a chemical-war victim quality-of-life assessment using a specific measurement tool. It added attention to survivors’ daily functioning beyond immediate battlefield injuries.

Visiting law lecturers and researchers met chemical-weapons survivors at Tehran Peace Museum and learned about lasting effects on health and the environment.

Families and survivors of the Halabja gas attack visited Tehran Peace Museum. The exchange emphasized shared experience and solidarity between victims in Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Tehran Peace Museum hosted a launch of Joost Hiltermann’s study of chemical warfare, bringing researchers and chemical-attack survivors into discussion.

A published study compared serum matrix metalloproteinase levels in chemical-injury patients and controls, investigating possible links with pulmonary disorders.

Two Iranian children received Hiroshima peace-drawing awards at Tehran Peace Museum, continuing its international peace-education exchanges.

UN resident coordinator Gary Lewis presented Tehran Peace Museum with a plaque recognizing its contribution to peace education and understanding of war’s consequences.

Tehran Peace Museum announced an antiwar poster exhibition by Behnaz Nikkhah Monfared, with an opening on chemical-warfare victims’ remembrance day.

A study of 242 Iranian chemical-war veterans with lung damage reported low quality-of-life scores. The findings concern the studied clinical sample, not all war survivors.

The OPCW director-general issued a statement commemorating the 1987 attack on Sardasht, keeping Iranian civilian victims within international chemical-weapons remembrance.