The remains of the bodies of 98 Iranian martyrs of Iraq’s imposed war on Iran (1980-88) were transported to the country through the Shalamcheh International Border Crossing in southwest Iran on Saturday.

The body of a member of the Basij volunteer force has been identified about 38 years after his martyrdom during Iraq’s war of aggression against Iran.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran has marked the anniversary of Iranian war prisoners’ release from Iraq, saying the country’s independence and honor is a result of the nation’s struggle for freedom.

"The War is still Alive" by Iranian photographerFatemeh Behboodi is scheduled to take part in the International Biennial of Women's Photography in Italy. The second edition of the International Biennial of Women's Photography will take place in Mantua from March 3rd to 27th, 2022, Italy. Iranian photographerFatemeh Behboodi's work dubbed as "The ...

The secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council highlighted the similarities between the calls for negotiations with Iran in the current circumstances and during the Iraqi-imposed war in the 1980s. In a thread on his Twitter account on Wednesday, Ali Shamkhani said there are lessons in making an analogy between the calls for negotiation ...

IRNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message commemorated heroes of Iran-Iraq imposed war, saying we stood tall. "We commemorate our fallen heroes40 yrs after Saddams invasion & start of 8 yr Iran-Iraq war," Zarif wrote in his Twitter account on Monday. "We stood tall, with the world supporting the aggressoreven w/ chemical ...

IRNA Eight years of Sacred Defense- the conflict of good and evil - remembers greatness and grandeur of honorable Iranian men and women who resisted to aggression of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and sacrificed their lives to defend the country. Sacred Defense Week starts in Iran on September 21. The Week is annually celebrated nationwide in commemoration ...

MNA Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei hailed the braveries of the Iraq-Iran War veterans, saying that the country stood alone against the US, the Soviet Union and the West during the war. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a videoconference meeting with War veterans on Monday, on the 40th anniversary of the beginning ...

MNA The Leader of the Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei, is to go live on a televised program to address the Iran-Iraq war veterans on Monday morning. The speech is to be held at 9:00 a.m. local time to address above one million of Iran's veterans on the occasion of the national Holy Defense Week, annual commemoration of the 19801988 IranIraq War ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message on Sunday said that culture of altruism, fortitude and martyrdom have been the keys to protect the country against threats and pressures. The history of Iran and the Islamic Revolution is filled with numerous braveries and honors; however, the history of eight years of selfless defense ...

MNA 33 years ago on this day, Saddam Husseins regime used the chemical weapons made by Western countries against civilians of Sardasht to make Iran the first victim of chemical weapons. On June 28, 1987, when the Iraqi imposed war against Iran was its peak, Saddam regimes launched chemical weapons on Sardasht, northwest Iran, which can be categorized ...

Tasnim People of Iran on Saturday marked the 33rd anniversary of chemical attacks by the Iraqi Ba'ath regime on the northwestern city of Sardasht. Located in Iran's northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, Sardasht was the third city in the world after Japans Hiroshima and Nagasaki to become a target of weapons of mass destruction. The attack ...

ISNA | Reza Soleymani Rouzbahani: A photo gallery of Khorramshahr, a city in the south of Iran which bore the brunt of the Iran-Iraq war. Thirty-one years after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, reconstruction is still in progress in the southern city of Khorramshahr, a city whose brave people still keep the memory of their martyrs and the blood of the ...

The Guardian | Anthony Micallef: In Iran, every spring, thousands of families travel to the battle sites of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88). Many of those who make these pilgrimages called Rahian-e Noor in Persian (the passenger of light) lost loved ones in the war, which caused more than half a million deaths on the Iranian side. This photo essay ...

Atlantic Council | Barbara Slavin: The roots of the current crisis in the Persian Gulf go back more than three decades to a devastating war between Iran and Iraq. So does a potential face-saving way to begin to de-escalate that crisis. On September 22, 1980, Iraqi forces invaded Iran, hoping for a swift victory over a country still in the throes ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message referred to the start of Iran-Iraq imposed war (1980-1988) by Saddam Hussein supported by global powers. "9/22/1980 is a dark day for Iranians as it marks Saddam's invasion - with support of global powers," Zarif tweeted on Sunday. He added: "Our region has been in turmoil ever ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the US to stop selling arms to 'Saddam's reincarnations' instead of complaining about Iran's defensive program. "For 8 YEARS, [former Iraqi President] Saddam showered our cities with missiles & bombs provided by East & West. Meanwhile, NO ONE sold Iran any means of defense. We ...

Mizan | Mostafa Roudaki: A large number of people attended a funeral processions in Tehran on Thursday for 150 Iranian martyrs whose remains have been recently unearthed more than three decades after the end of the Iraqi imposed war in the 1980s.   ...

IRNA Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein attacked Sardasht, West Azarbaijan, northwestern Iran, with chemical weapons in 1987, making Sardasht of the first city in the world target of the weapons of mass destruction. The footprints of arrogant countries were clearly seen in the humanitarian tragedy and its catastrophic consequences. On June ...

Tasnim Remains of 115 Iranian troops unearthed more than 30 years after the end of the Iraqi imposed war on Iran in the 1980s were repatriated from the Arab country via a southwestern border crossing. The remains of the martyrs in Iranian-flag-wrapped caskets were transferred to Iran via the Arvand River border crossing in Khuzestan Province on ...