Sardasht anniversary: Iran's envoy to Germany calls for justice over West's role in 1987 chemical bombing
Iran's ambassador to Germany has called on German free thinkers to seek accountability for Western companies and industrial actors that helped equip Saddam Hussein's regime with the materials and technology used in the 1987 chemical attack on Sardasht.
Majid Nili on Wednesday announced that he had sent a letter to German free thinkers and intellectuals on the anniversary of the chemical attack on the northwestern Iranian city of Sardasht.
In a message posted on the social media platform X, Nili noted how certain Western companies and industrial actors enabled Saddam Hussein's regime to obtain the materials and technology needed to produce chemical weapons.
He stressed that holding accountable those who supplied and enabled the crime is essential to prevent similar tragedies in the future.
Nili also said that history would not forget the role played not only by the direct perpetrators of the attack, but also by those who provided the technology and equipment and those who remained silent in the face of the atrocity.
On June 28, 1987, Iraq's Ba'athist regime used internationally banned chemical weapons to attack four densely populated areas of the northwestern Iranian city of Sardasht, killing and injuring thousands of civilians.
According to official figures, 119 civilians were killed and more than 8,000 others were exposed to toxic agents and suffered chemical injuries, many of whom continue to experience long-term health consequences.
The border city is often described as the world's first city to suffer a large-scale chemical weapons attack against a civilian population since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Investigations conducted after the Iraq war against Iran found that Iraq's chemical weapons program relied heavily on foreign assistance.
German companies supplied chemical precursors, industrial equipment, and technical expertise that helped Saddam Hussein's regime develop and expand its chemical weapons capabilities, which were later used against both Iranians and Iraqi Kurds.
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