UN team combines Ahvaz examinations with a Hamid-area survey

Iran informed the UN that it could not then receive the planned chemical-weapons mission because it could not provide safety assurances, delaying the investigation’s departure.

Iran informed the UN that it was ready to receive the mission. Rescheduling required changes to specialist availability, leading to Dahlgren’s participation in place of Andersson.

MEES reported Iran and Pakistan renewing and upgrading an oil-for-agricultural-products agreement. Such arrangements connected Iranian export income with essential imports late in the war.

Iraqi jets attacked a major gas-treatment plant at Kangan–Nar in southwestern Iran. The strike threatened an energy project under construction and the workers building it.

A UN mission arrived in Iran to investigate fresh chemical-weapons allegations, combining medical examination with technical expertise under the Security Council’s investigation arrangements.

Kittani requested a UN mission with chemical expertise to examine alleged Iraqi casualties and a purported captured weapons store, advancing new counter-allegations against Iran.

Iran requested a Security Council meeting on the destruction of Iran Air Flight 655 by U.S. forces. The complaint sought an international response to the deaths of the civilian aircraft’s occupants.

Samples from the July Iranian investigation reached the Swedish laboratory at Umea, providing an external analytical route for physical evidence collected during the mission.

UN specialists examined and interviewed four Iraqi patients at As Sulaymaniyah Military Hospital and inspected an 81 mm mortar munition, testing Iraq’s chemical-warfare allegations.

UN specialists inspected a stockpile at Tariq Military Camp and sampled one randomly selected grenade. Iraq claimed the store was captured from Iran; sampling did not establish its origin.