Iran Press/Iran News: The Commemoration ceremony on the 32nd anniversary of Sardasht- a city in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran- chemical attack martyrs was held on Friday.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Gholam-Hossein Dehghani, West Azerbaijan’s governor, the representative of Piranshahr and Sardasht in Majlis, and also the families of the martyrs attended the ceremony, held in Sardasht, Iran Press reported.
The Deputy Foreign Minister said: “Lot’s of action has been made in the Foreign Ministry in order to pursue the rightful demands of Sardasht’s people at the global level.”
The MP from Piranshahr and Sardasht Rasoul Khezri emphasized that the innocence of the victims of the chemical attack in Sardasht must be reflected throughout the world.
The Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein attacked Sardasht, in West Azerbaijan province, in northwestern Iran, with chemical weapons in 1987, making Sardasht one of the first cities in the world to be targeted by weapons of mass destruction.
On 28 and 29 June 1987, Iraqi bombers attacked four crowded districts of Sardasht with chemical bombs that engulfed its residents, women, and children, young and old, bringing death on a grand scale.
The chemical attack on Sardasht left at least 110 people killed, and 5,000 others injured, many receiving serious life-threatening injuries.
The chemicals had a long-term chronic effect and affected many of the injured people, especially children, for years to come. Even today, 32 years after the event, many residents of Sardasht are suffering from the horrid effects of a nerve-agent chemical attack, and struggling for their lives.
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