Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed Western concerns for what they call malign regional behavior, pointing to the Wests full support for the former Iraqi dictator in the massacre of civilians in a chemical attack on Halabja in 1988. March 16 is the 33rd anniversary of the chemical carnage in Halabja, Zarif said in a post on his ...

28 years ago the Iraqi army dropped chemical bombs on the town of Halabja.The civilians happened to be Kurds, Iraqi dictator Saddam Husseins enemies. He had ordered his forces to drop gas on the city, then inhabited by 45,000 Kurds. The Halabja chemical attack also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday, was a genocidal massacre against ...

[caption id="attachment_89651" align="alignright" width="180"] The consequences of the attack are still being felt[/caption] Kurds in northern Iraq have been commemorating the 25th anniversary of the chemical weapons attack on the town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's forces. Clutching photos of dead relatives, mourners observed a minute's silence ...