Iran Press/ Iran News: On 28 June 1987, the West-backed Iraqi Baathist regime of Saddam dropped mustard gas bombs on Sardasht, northwestern Iran. In two separate bombing runs on four residential areas, the attack killed 130 people and injured 8,000.
The messages of Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdolahian and Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Fernando Arias González were read in the ceremony. In the message, Amir-Abdolahian pointed to the extensive participation of some Western governments in committing the war crimes in Sardasht, emphasizing one of the less-seen aspects of the crime of using chemical weapons against Iran was its widespread use against cities and civilians, especially defenseless women and children, which led to the martyrdom of thousands of people and the martyrdom of tens of thousands of people who are still living with pain and suffering.
On 28 June 1987, Iraq dropped mustard gas bombs on Sardasht, West Azerbaijan, Iran. In two separate bombing runs on four residential areas, the attack killed 130 people and injured 8,000.
It stated that despite the passage of 36 years since this crime, due to the Western governments' sheer violations of human rights, Iran's international legal pursuits to take the material and spiritual rights of the incident's martyrs and veterans and to try and punish the perpetrators and supporters of the chemical attack against the country has not come to a conclusion.
Still, Amir-Abdolhian pointed in his message to the embargo on the medicines needed by chemically harmed people and added that these sanctions are one of the clearest examples of crime against humanity.
He emphasized that the Islamic Republic of Iran, as the biggest victim of the widespread use of chemical weapons in the contemporary era, condemns the use of such weapons anywhere by anyone and under any circumstances and once again renews its commitment to the realization of a world free of chemical weapons.
Fernando Arias González also called on the international community to adhere to its obligations in prohibiting the use of chemical weapons.
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