Iranian Spokesman Remembers Victims of Sardasht Chemical Bombing
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry honored the memory of those killed in chemical attacks on the country’s northwestern city of Sardasht four decades ago.
“Today marks the 38th anniversary of Saddam’s chemical attack on Sardasht, northwestern Iran. It was not the first time the Iraqi dictator used chemical weapons in his war of aggression against Iran. Throughout the eight-year imposed war, Saddam’s army repeatedly gassed Iranian soldiers and civilians with complete impunity,” Esmaeil Baqaei said in a post on his X account on Saturday, June 28.
“38 years on, Iranians continue to demand truth and justice regarding those who armed Saddam’s regime with chemical weapons. Germany, UK, US and the Netherlands were involved, in one way or another, in developing Iraq’s chemical weapons program,” he added.
“German companies' role in Iraq’s WMD program was significant and the German government was actively aware of that. Germany must shoulder its legal and moral responsibility by disclosing the truth about its role in Iraq’s chemical weapons program,” the spokesman said.
“Iran’s demand for truth and justice will not fade as war crimes and crimes against humanity carry no statute of limitations,” Baqaei said.
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.
