Iraq challenges the UN’s refusal to attribute its chemical injuries

The Secretary-General transmitted a four-specialist report on chemical-weapons allegations in the Iran-Iraq conflict. Its findings added independent international scrutiny to years of Iranian...

A Council statement cited repeated Iraqi chemical use against Iranian forces and chemical injuries to civilians in Iran. It also noted Iraqi military injuries from chemical agents.

Iran forwarded photographs said to show the effects of chemical weapons on residents, including children, in Alut village near Baneh. The submission formed part of Tehran’s campaign for...

An Iraqi aircraft fired two Exocet missiles at the U.S. frigate USS Stark, killing 37 American sailors and injuring 21. The attack showed how Iraq’s air campaign and the Tanker War could draw...

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.

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...

Japanese Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari visited Iran and appealed for an early end to the war, adding another diplomatic channel alongside UN efforts.

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...