UN medical investigator begins the March inquiry in Iran

Mahallati alleged chemical bombing of villages along the Sanandaj–Marivan road and renewed Iran’s request for a UN investigation. The reported injuries and deaths were Iranian claims.

Mashhadi reported Halabja and Iranian border-village chemical allegations to the Conference on Disarmament, urging a prompt UN inquiry before traces disappeared.

Mahallati reported alleged chemical attacks around Sardasht on 22 March and urged international action, adding further civilian allegations to Iran’s requests for investigation.

The secretary-general decided to send a medical specialist to Iran after its chemical-weapons complaints, setting the terms for the March clinical investigation.

Iran transmitted a letter concerning chemical weapons use to the United Nations. The submission continued Tehran’s effort to secure international attention during the war’s final months.

Tariq Aziz protested the UN spokesman’s 25 March statement, accused the organization of unequal treatment and repeated Iraqi allegations against Iran. These were Baghdad’s claims.

Dominguez examined and interviewed patients at Mofatteh Convalescence Centre and Loghman-al-Doleh Hospital, continuing the March inquiry into alleged chemical exposure.

The mission examined patients at Bakhtaran’s reception centre and observed and interviewed affected people in Nowdoshe and Nejmal, adding village-level evidence to its hospital work.

Velayati urged the disarmament conference to complete a comprehensive chemical-weapons convention and criticized the lack of effective preventive action after Halabja.

Iran transmitted photographs described as documenting Halabja’s chemical victims and requested a report that could support preventive action. The photographs were evidence submissions, not findings in...