UN team visits the Val Fajr infirmary at Azadi Stadium

A further 500 TOW missiles were delivered to Iran. Despite the combined February deliveries, no hostages were released immediately afterward, underscoring the channel’s uncertain bargaining results.

At the Conference on Disarmament, Velayati asked whether international institutions could try war criminals and chemical-weapons users if treaty negotiations and verification failed.

UN specialists examined and interviewed patients at Tehran’s Labbafi-Nejad Hospital. Their work included interviews with Iraqi casualties held in Iran, widening the clinical evidence considered.

The UN team surveyed three Abadan-area sites, examined debris and craters, collected soil samples and examined patients at a field hospital and an Ahvaz hospital.

After clinical work in Ahvaz and Tehran, the UN team visited Tehran’s coroner and mortuary to examine bodies and collect material for analysis of alleged chemical exposure.

The operation concluded without a decisive outcome. Iran’s simultaneous offensives across different sectors spread Iraqi forces but also strained Iranian logistics and manpower.

Iraq said cooperation on Resolution 582 depended on Iranian acceptance and agreement on a comprehensive timetable, including prompt withdrawal and prisoner exchange. Its reply was conditional.

While preparing their report, UN specialists received results from the Spiez laboratory in Switzerland, incorporating laboratory work into their Iranian chemical-weapons investigation.

The UN mission received results from the Swedish laboratory at Umea, adding a second laboratory’s analysis to the chemical evidence gathered during its Iranian fieldwork.

A Ghent toxicology report examined biological samples from Iranian patients treated in European hospitals, reporting mustard exposure and cholinesterase-inhibiting agents with qualifications on...