MNA Two Iranian border guards were martyred in a clash with gunmen in Sardasht County, West Azerbaijan province. Commander of West Azarbaijan province border guards, Second Brigadier General Hossein Khani, said late on Friday that the Iranian border guards entered into a clash with an armed group in the border regions of Sardasht County, during ...

MNA 33 years ago on this day, Saddam Husseins regime used the chemical weapons made by Western countries against civilians of Sardasht to make Iran the first victim of chemical weapons. On June 28, 1987, when the Iraqi imposed war against Iran was its peak, Saddam regimes launched chemical weapons on Sardasht, northwest Iran, which can be categorized ...

Tasnim People of Iran on Saturday marked the 33rd anniversary of chemical attacks by the Iraqi Ba'ath regime on the northwestern city of Sardasht. Located in Iran's northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, Sardasht was the third city in the world after Japans Hiroshima and Nagasaki to become a target of weapons of mass destruction. The attack ...

IRNA - Three Iranian border guards were martyred in clashes with gunmen in northwestern border area. Soldiers of Sardasht Border Regiment clashed with armed thugs on Friday morning on surveillance on the border strip. The police said the incident happened in the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan and on the border with Iraqs semi-autonomous ...

MNA The border police commanders of Iranian governorate of Sardasht and Iraq Kurdistans Sulaymaniyah held a meeting to discuss expansion of border cooperation between two sides. The border police commander of Iranian governorate of Sardasht Major Esmaeili held a meeting with the Brigadier General Emid Fakhraddin, the border police commander of ...

Press TV - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khameneihas lashed out at Western countries for adopting a double-standard policy toward the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), reminding them of their support for slain Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his war on Iran in the 1980s. The Leader made the remarks on Wednesday ...

Tasnim Terrorists killed two Iranian border guards in northwest of the country on Tuesday night. During a gunfight at a border post near the city of Sardasht, two members of Border Police were martyred, Polices website reported. The two servicemen, first lieutenant Yousef Piraneh and warrant officer Mahboub Qorbani, were killed when a number of ...

Tasnim - Sardasht, in the southwest of Iran's West Azarbaijan province, has been acknowledged as one of Irans best ecotourism destinations in view of its scenic nature. The city is home to 46 percent of the provinces total land areas covered with forest. Shalmash Waterfall, Geravan Mineral Spring, Bivaran Plain, dense chestnut forests, and ...

MNA Irans FM Zarif in a message on the occasion of 30th anniversary of chemical attack on Iranian city of Sardasht, voiced regret over hypocrisy of world powers for having refused to condemn the bombing. Iran marked on Thursday the 30th anniversary of the chemical bombardment of the city of Sardasht in the northwest of the country by former Iraqi ...

IRNA Chemical bombardment of Irans northwestern city of Sardasht was a disastrous event which drew worlds attention to the terrible dimensions of chemical weapons that led to international talks regarding the need for freedom from the horrible scourge. Head of Foreign Ministrys Mission in West Azarbaijan Ahmad Montazami marked the anniversary of ...

IFP- According to a Farsi report by the Iranian Department of Environment (DoE), while demonstrations are reminder of blood and fire just some kilometres away from Sardasht, people in this Kurdish-majority border town chose a peaceful way to show their protest. They held flower pots in their hands to protest against the destruction of oak habitats ...

Iranian security forces have killed 12 counter-revolutionary militants in the northwest of the country near the border with Iraq. In a statement on Wednesday, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry said that the militants were killed in the city of Sardasht in West Azarbaijan province. A group of 12 gunmen, who sought to carry out acts of sabotage ...

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Mahabad, West Azarbaijan Prov., June 28, IRNA Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Ahmet zmc expressed condolences with the victims of Sardasht chemical attack. The statement was read out in a ceremony held in Sardasht on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the chemical bombing of the city located in northwestern ...

Tehran, June 27, IRNA - Effects and consequences of the inhumane chemical attack on the city of Sardasht are not going to be forgotten, says Iran's parliament speaker. The chemical bombing of Sardasht which led to the demise of up to 110 people and injury of up to 5000 innocent people was a historical catastrophe, Ali Larijani said in a statement ...

Tehran, June 28, IRNA - Iranian Foreign has called for a world free of chemical weapons reminding the international community of its legal and ethical duty to provide compensation for the victims of chemical weapons. Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a written message read out in a ceremony held in the city of Sardasht in West Azarbaijan province on Monday,...

[caption id="attachment_107405" align="alignright" width="267"] A photo by Gohar Dashti from her series Todays Life and War[/caption] Iranian photographer Gohar Dashtis works have been showcased at the anti-war photo exhibition in France. Dashtis two works selected from her series Todays Life and War, along with many other photos have been displayed ...

[caption id="attachment_102266" align="alignright" width="205"] Irans Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani[/caption] Mahabad, June 28, IRNA - Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Saturday honored the martyrs and the injured victims of chemical attacks on Sardasht. Larijani made the remarks in a message presented to the seminar marking anniversary of the Iraqi ...