UN medical mission visits Bakhtaran and affected villages

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.

Manuel Dominguez arrived in Tehran and began examining and interviewing patients, using clinical evidence to investigate Iran’s chemical-weapons allegations.

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.

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...

Aziz requested an immediate UN mission to Baghdad to examine soldiers allegedly injured in Iranian chemical attacks in the Halabja sector. The allegation required investigation.

Iraq fired missiles at several Iranian cities, including Isfahan. Iran struck the Iraqi ports of Umm Qasr and Basra as the urban exchange continued.

Iran voted in the first round of parliamentary elections during the war’s final spring. Rival factions within the Islamic Republic competed while military and economic pressures mounted.