Ministry reports another cross-border return of war remains

An ICRC-supervised handover at Shalamcha returned 44 Iranian soldiers’ remains, continuing cross-border recovery of those missing from the war.

Researchers analyzed long-term lung, skin and eye complications in 64,190 registered Iranian chemical-war survivors. The database study highlighted continuing health burdens decades after exposure.

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.

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

A retrospective Sardasht cohort study examined mortality over 32 years after the chemical attack. It added long follow-up evidence rather than recording a new attack or exposure.

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.