Iraq asks for a mission to examine alleged chemical casualties

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...

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.

Dominguez began examining and interviewing patients at Baghdad’s Al Rasheed Military Hospital after Iraq requested an inquiry. Examinations continued the following day.

A contemporary report described Tehran residents enduring alerts and queues for airline tickets. The account reveals attempts to leave and the strain of living under missile attack.

Iran’s representative submitted a letter reporting chemical weapons use. The communication added to the formal record of Iran’s complaints as the fighting intensified in spring 1988.