Caretaker Foreign Minister of Iran Ali Baqeri honored the memory of those killed in chemical attacks on the country’s northwestern city of Sardasht four decades ago.

MNA Comparing the Saddam and Trump's anti-Iran moves, the Iranian Government spokesman noted Saddam tore up the 1975 Algiers Agreement in front of the cameras, and today Trump is doing the same thing with the JCPOA. Speaking in a press conference, Ali Rabiei referred the Holy Defense years (1980-1988) during which the Iranian nation, under the ...

MNA Top military Aide to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said those who supported the former Iraqi dictator in using chemical weapons against Iran during the eight-year war should be put on trial. Saddam committed the gravest crimes against humanity by launching 252 chemical bombardments on the Iranian cities during the eight-year Imposed ...

Press TV - Irans ambassador and permanent representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says unilateral US sanctions have prevented the countrys access to medical and health services required to treat victims of chemical attacks carried out by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. The inhumane sanctions ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the US to stop selling arms to 'Saddam's reincarnations' instead of complaining about Iran's defensive program. "For 8 YEARS, [former Iraqi President] Saddam showered our cities with missiles & bombs provided by East & West. Meanwhile, NO ONE sold Iran any means of defense. We ...

MNA Today, Iran and Iraq released a historical joint statement about their commitment to 1975 agreement and urgent dredging of rivers at the joint border, this will remove one of the other impacts of the war imposed by Saddam Hussein against Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif twitted on Tuesday. Last night, Iraqi Prime ...

IRNA - Iran's ambassador to the UK Hamid Baeeidinejad says West had mobilized Saddam in war on Iran. In a memo on his telegram channel on Wednesday on the eve of the anniversary of operations Karbala-4 and Karbala-5, Baeedinejad said the weapons and equipment were sent to Saddam's regime by the West and the East, especially the United States. The ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister in a Twitter message on Thursday, referring to the crimes so far sponsored by Washington, said that US is responsible for all crimes from Iraqi Ba'athist dictator Saddam to Daesh (ISIS) terrorists. US & allies should cease their hypocritical absurdities abt Iran's missiles & regional behavior. Facts speak for ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif in a message disclosed the reasons why Iran sympathizes with Yemeni people. Today in 1986: Iraqi planesprovided to Saddam through $75b Saudi financingbombed an Iranian city for 105 mins. It was the longest aerial assault since WWII, killing & injuring over 1000 civilians. One reason we feel for ...

Press TV - President Hassan Rouhani says Iranians will defeat US President Donald Trump like what they did to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. He made the remarks in a military parade in Tehran on Saturday to mark the beginning of the week that commemorates Iran's eight-year resistance against Iraqs 1980-88 invasion. About 600 vessels ...

IFP - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday met a group of former prisoners who had been jailed either by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the war he imposed on Iran or by the regime of former despotic Shah of Iran before the 1979 Revolution. The friendly meeting was held to mark the anniversary of the return ...

RT | F. Michael Maloof: US hypocrisy over its self-righteous military attack on Syria over a recent alleged use of not-yet-verified chemical weapons in Douma raises the question: Is gassing bad, but OK for some countries? The reason for asking is the rush to judgment by the United States, Britain and France to bomb selected military locations in ...

Press TV- Leaderof the Islamic Revolution AyatollahSeyyedAli Khamenei has blasted certain countries for applying a double-standard approach to the use of chemical weapons. At a Saturday meeting with a group of teenagers and youths in Tehran, the Leader pointed to the use of chemical weapons by the regime of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ...

IFP - An Iranian commentator says French President Emmanuel Macron, who is calling for further transparency on Irans defensive program, has forgotten that his country armed Iraqs Saddam Hussein in war against Iran. Reza Nasri, an Iranian expert in international law, has, in an elaborate interview with the Persian-language reformist newspaper ...

MNA Former Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan says that the Imposed War of 1980-88 taught Iranians not to rely on other countries in terms of defense industries. We learned from the Imposed War to be dependent upon our own capabilities, asserted Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, the former Iranian Defense Minister who is ...

IFP - An Iraqi commander says there are evidence that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been trying to revive the former dictator Saddam Husseins Baath party in Iraq. Deputy Commander of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, says the consulates of Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region ...

FNA- Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council (EC) Mohsen Rezayee warned of Riyadh's attempts to form different coalitions against Tehran, and said Saudi Arabia seeks to turn into a second Saddam who launched a war against Iran in 1980s. "In the early days after the Islamic Revolution, Saudi Arabia organized the Persian Gulf littoral states against ...

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Fridya said that providers of chemical weapons to the Iraqi deposed dictator Saddam Hussein during the imposed war against Iran are now accusing Syria of suing the weapons. He made the remarks on Friday at the end of the news conference with his Russian and Syrian counterparts Sergey Lavrov and Walid ...

American Herald Tribune- America urged Saddam Hussein to attack Hafez al-Assad'sSyriabecause of the closure of Iraq's oil pipeline, a secret 1983 intelligence report has revealed. A report, by former senior CIA official Graham Fuller, said the US should consider 'urging Iraq to take the war to Syria', noting that Saddam was 'fighting for his life' ...

Alwaght- Following the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979 and removal of the Shah regime, a military and security vacuum ensued in the country. The post-revolution chaos and division in Iran tempted Saddam Hussein, the former dictator of Iraq under Baathist regime, to seize the moment and so invade his eastern neighbor. The Baathist army forces ...