Iran neither forgets nor forgives perpetrators of Sardasht chemical attack: FM

Iran will neither forget nor forgive the perpetrators of the 1987 chemical attack on the Iranian city of Sardasht in West Azarbaijan Province, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian states, pointing to the the role of Western governments in supplying chemical agents to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

In a Wednesday message on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the chemical attack on Sardasht, the Iranian foreign minister once again drew attention to the active collusion of Western governments in the brutal atrocity by knowingly sending the chemical agents to Iraqi dictator.

“There is valid evidence and undeniable documents about the practical and extensive complicity of some Western countries, especially Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, in committing these crimes by equipping the Saddam regime with chemical weapons and helping it use them against the Iranian people,” Amir-Abdollahian said.

Over 100 people were killed in the Sardasht attack on June 28, 1987, and thousands more were exposed to chemical agents.

After three decades, many of the survivors of the chemical attack still have to live with the long-term respiratory and even psychological effects of inhaling mustard gas used in the attack.