Seventy-two Iranian soldiers’ remains return at Shalamcheh

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.

Iraq’s ministry reported the return of 57 Iranian soldiers’ remains, alongside four Iraqi remains, in an exchange earlier that week.

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.

People in Ahvaz attended a funeral for 111 recently returned soldiers after Friday prayers, following their transfer from Iraq through the Arvand River.