A Forgotten Crime
Iran, Islamic Republic of | 2015
For five years Saddam's soldiers rained chemical war upon Iran while the world looked on unmoved. His inhumane weapons, banned in the 1925 Geneva Protocol, were developed and manufactured with Western assistance. Decades after the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, thousands of Iranians continue to suffer their chronic effects. Over 13,000 Iranians are dead from chemical weapons. This harrowing, deeply hu…