Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif slammed the US sanctions as a main obstacle preventing the delivery of medicine and equipment to the Iranians victimized by chemical weapons. Zarif on Monday released a message in commemoration of the victims of the 1987 chemical bombing of Sardasht by the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein....

Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Fernando Arias said in a statement on Monday that the victims of Sardasht chemical weapon attack by the Saddam Hussein regime and all others who have experienced the torment and pain caused by chemical weapons deserve all our respect and solidarity. He made ...

The head of the Iranian Judiciarys High Council for Human Rights says Iran has filed lawsuits in international courts againstEuropean companies that provided chemical materials to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Husseins regime, who used chemical weapons against Iranians in the 1980s war. Ali Baqeri-Kani made the remarks on Thursday in a meeting with ...

Tehran Times - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said the U.S. sanctions on Iran and its assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani will not demoralize the Iranian nation, Mehr reported. The U.S. policy has brought nothing but disgrace to that country, Zarif said in a video conference held late on Saturday to mark a deadly chemical ...

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 ...

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 ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi in a message termed the US and Europe as supporters of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MEK/MKO) and their crimes. "39yrs ago, today, Iran Chief Justice Ayatollah Beheshti & 72senior figures were assassinated by US-, Saddam-backed MEK terrorist cult," Mousavi wrote in his Twitter ...

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 Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein attacked Sardasht, West Azarbaijan, northwestern Iran, with chemical weapons in 1987, making Sardasht of the first city in the world target of the weapons of mass destruction. The footprints of arrogant countries were clearly seen in the humanitarian tragedy and its catastrophic consequences. On June ...

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IRNA - Iranian foreign Minister in a message referred to the chemical attack conducted by former Iraqi regime in Halabja & Sardasht, saying Iranians together with Kurdish brothers will never forget it. 'First they denied it happenedthen they blamed Iran. When it was clear it was their own ally, using their own chemical weapons, they were silent....

Tasnim The Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ahmet Uzumcu paid homage to the victims of a 1987 chemical bombing of the northwestern city of Sardasht by the Iraqi army under former dictator Saddam Hussein. Every year on 28 June, we come together to mourn the men and women who perished and those who ...

Press TV - Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the Islamic Republic is the biggest victim of chemical weapons, stressing that the Israeli regime's possession of a massive stockpile of nukes is a threat to international peace and security. Hatami made the remarks in a message on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of a ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   US, Israel to blame for ominous shadow of WMDs on region: Zarif Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif slammed Washington and Tel Aviv for preventing the realization of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, calling for international action for elimination of ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif slammed Washington and Tel Aviv for preventing the realization of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, calling for international action for elimination of Israels nuclear, biological and chemical stockpiles. The Islamic Republic of Iran, as the biggest victim of chemical arms, while ...

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 ...

The city of Sardasht is the third city in the world after Japans Hiroshima and Nagasaki which became the target of Weapons of Mass Destruction. In June 28 and 29, 1987, Iraqi bombers attacked 4 crowded parts of Sardasht with chemical bombs and engulfed its residents, women and children, young and old, with fatal chemical gases.    ...

Mahabad, West Azarbaijan prov, June 29, IRNA Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said the images of the disaster caused by chemical bombing in the city of Sardasht will never fade away from the minds of Iranians. In a message to a gathering here on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the chemical bombing of the city of Sardasht in northwest of the ...

  The director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has paid tribute tovictims of Iraqi chemical attacks on an Iranian border city 27 years ago. On behalf of the OPCW, I wish to convey my deepest sympathies to the authorities and people of Sardasht for those who suffered and perished as a result of this ...