Iran’s environment chief calls for UNEP action on chemical warfare

Hemmat, commander of the IRGC’s 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division, was killed during Operation Kheibar near the Majnoon Islands. His death marked a major command loss in the marsh fighting.

Rajaie Khorassani invoked Resolution 37/98 D to demand an immediate chemical-weapons inquiry, arguing that the secretary-general did not need another UN organ’s involvement.

An Iranian soldier treated for suspected chemical burns died at Stockholm’s Karolinska Hospital. The death shows the severity of injuries requiring treatment outside Iran.

Iran reported an alleged chemical attack that day in the Hur-al-Howizeh region. Its UN letter explicitly said casualty details were not yet available.

Four UN specialists arrived in Tehran to investigate Iran’s chemical-weapons allegations, beginning the on-site phase of the March 1984 mission.

U.S. instructions sought a no-decision motion on Iran’s chemical weapons draft at the UN Human Rights Commission, with abstention as a fallback. The venue was the Commission, not a Security Council...

UN specialists surveyed two sites in the war zone, examined aerial bombs, collected samples and interviewed patients in a field hospital and Ahvaz, linking physical and clinical evidence.

The UN team examined patients in Tehran hospitals and performed preliminary laboratory tests on samples collected in the war zone, comparing clinical observations with physical evidence.

UN specialists examined aerial bombs brought from the war zone to Tehran and visited the coroner’s mortuary, expanding the evidence examined during their chemical-weapons inquiry.

The UN team examined patients at Tafti Stadium Infirmary in Ahvaz, received samples and later interviewed patients in a Tehran hospital, extending its clinical investigation.