The director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) offered sympathies to and expressed solidarity with the people of Sardasht on the 36th anniversary of a chemical attack by the former Iraqi regime on the Iranian town. In a message on Wednesday, OPCW Director-General Fernando Arias commemorated victims of the ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian says the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran will neither forget nor forgive the perpetrators of the Sardasht chemical attack and their accomplices. Amirabdollahian made the remarks in a message on Wednesday on the anniversary of a chemical attack on the Iranian city of Sardasht, northwestern ...

Irans permanent ambassador to the United Nations has said that Iranians will never forget the role that some Western states played in assisting the Saddam regime in the systematic use of chemical weapons against the Iranians. Amir Saeed Iravani made the remarks late on Monday as he addressed a UN Security Council meeting on the situation ...

Iran's envoy to the UN office in Genevahas called for identifying and punishing the perpetrators of a 1987 chemical attack on the Iranian city of Sardasht in West Azerbaijan Province by Western-backed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Speakingin a meeting held to commemorate the 35thanniversary of the chemical bombing,Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh called ...