USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Gulf

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.

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.

A later presidential report records $37.9 million in Iranian funds returned from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The release followed arrangements under the Iran–U.S. Claims Tribunal process.

Iraq launched a major offensive, using chemical munitions and overwhelming Iranian positions to retake al-Faw. The reversal erased Iran’s most important territorial gain of 1986 and signaled a...

U.S. forces attacked Iranian oil platforms and naval units in the Gulf after the Roberts mine incident. The operation sank or damaged several Iranian vessels. Tehran viewed it as direct U.S....

Iran reported alleged Iraqi chemical weapons use on 17 and 18 April. The event dates the formal complaint on 19 April, keeping it distinct from the reported attack dates.