Iran’s FM Remembers Victims of Sardasht Chemical Bombings

In a message released on Wednesday, marking the anniversary of the chemical bombings and the National Day of Fight against Chemical and Biological Weapons, Amirabdollahian said the attacks depicted the most painful dimension of the crimes of the Saddam Hussein regime and its Western partners.

The message is as follows:

“In the Name of God the Beneficent the Merciful

Message of Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian

June 29, 2022

To mark the anniversary of the chemical bombing of the city of Sardasht and the National Day of Fight against Chemical and Biological Weapons

35 years have passed since the horrific chemical bombing of Sardasht by the blood-thirsty Baathist regime. Although during the eight-year imposed war, chemical weapons and bombs were used against Iranian military personnel and civilians more than 300 times in all provinces along the western Iranian border area, the chemical attack of June 1987 against four areas of the City of Sardasht and some nearby villages, depicted the most painful dimension of the crimes of the Saddam regime and its Western partners.

To mark this occasion and its designation as the “National Day of Fight against Chemical and Biological Weapons”, I honor the memory of the great martyrs and treasured chemical injured war veterans exposed to chemical weapons and ask God to grant their survivors and families patience and fortitude.”

Located in Iran’s northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, Sardasht was the third city in the world after Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki to become a target of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

On 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.

The attacks killed 116 citizens and injured over 5,000.