Kuranari visits Iran to appeal for an early peace

TASS reported that a Soviet tanker had struck a mine off Kuwait. The incident exposed Soviet-linked commercial shipping to the hazards of the Gulf war.

Iraq protested that the UN mission and Council noted Iraqi chemical injuries without concluding that Iran caused them. Kittani demanded a stronger attribution than the investigators had made.

Velayati thanked the UN specialists but criticized the Council’s response, urging political action, chemical export restraints and continued scrutiny of Iraq’s access to chemical agents.

The 12-member European Community expressed concern that the Geneva Protocol had repeatedly been violated, urged an immediate end to chemical-weapons use, and called for restraint in the Gulf and an...

After mines damaged ships in the Gulf, the United States sought minesweepers and European NATO governments reconsidered their earlier refusal. Responsibility for the mines was disputed; the incident...

Iran told the UN that Iraqi aircraft dropped chemical bombs on Sarsool and Bolhassan villages in Baneh on 7 May, wounding 92 people. The number is attributed to the Iranian report reproduced in the UN...

Britain ordered Iran’s Manchester consulate closed and expelled diplomats after the detention of Edward Chaplin in Tehran. Diplomatic confrontation deepened during the war.

Iran alleged that Iraqi artillery attacked a brigade of the Malteh battalion near Baneh with chemical weapons on 24 May. The allegation was part of a continuing series of reports submitted to the UN.

Iran complained that chemical shells were fired at Iranian positions in the Husseiniyeh operational theatre on 14 June. Tehran argued that the repeated attacks required a stronger international...

A U.S. arms survey listed no American sales to Iran or Iraq for 1981-85. An ACDA official explained that covert operations were excluded, limiting what its published figures could establish.