In a video message to an event at the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Center for Political and International Studies, Fernando Arias spoke about the Sardasht chemical attack to mark the anniversary of the attack.
On that day, innocent women and children were victims of a horrific assault of deadly chemical gases that claimed lives, he said.
The pain and grief of the survivors and all those who have been affected by these attacks will always be with us, he added.
Sardasht, a small city in the northwestern Iranian province of West Azarbaijan, was targeted with fatal chemical agents on June 28, 1987, during Iraq’s war of aggression against Iran.
Over 100 people were killed and thousands more were exposed to chemical agents after the Iraqi bombers attacked four densely populated parts of Sardasht.
Iranian officials have repeatedly called on the international community to bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime to justice.
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