UN specialists examine Tehran patients and begin sample testing

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.

Iran transmitted Mirza Taheri’s appeal for UNEP to condemn chemical warfare and address its environmental consequences, extending the complaint beyond battlefield injuries.

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.

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.

The Iranian offensive toward Basra did not achieve its main strategic objective, but Iranian forces retained parts of the Majnoon Islands. The result created a contested island front and prompted...

Before further Baghdad talks, Rumsfeld requested a list of countries approached about arms transfers to Iran and the status of each approach. The cable documents Washington’s campaign to constrain...

A U.S. UN mission cable described British and Dutch efforts toward a Security Council response to chemical warfare and Iraq’s request for restraint. The discussion followed the UN experts’ report.