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Iran marks Sardasht chemical bombing anniv.

Iran has marked the national day of fight against chemical and biological weapons. The occasion is to commemorate the victims of the Sardasht chemical attacks launched by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hossein in June 1987.

Saman Kojouri

Press TV, Tehran

The Iranian city of Sardasht in West Azerbaijan Province is the third city after Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki which became the target of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the world. In June, 1987, Iraqi warplanes dropped mustard gas bombs on Sardasht, in two separate bombing runs on four residential areas.