Operation Mersad, launched 38 years ago today, saw Iran decisively crush the MKO terror cult and Saddam's forces in just three days, exposing the group's horrendous war crimes against Iranian civilians and permanently ending their military ambitions against the Islamic Republic.

He stressed that the crime could never have been committed on such a scale, and repeated throughout the eight-year imposed war, without the complicity of certain Western governments.

The 1982 liberation of Khorramshahr from the US-backed Ba'athist regime became Iran’s defining symbol of resistance and unity, a spirit that reemerged in the recent US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran.

Iraq has announced that a high-level security officer during the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein has been executed for his involvement in the 1980 execution of Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr.

Iran says its people will resolve their problems through dialogue and interaction with one another and will never allow any foreign interference.

As the world marks the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Chemical Warfare, the calls for accountability over Western-enabled Iraqi chemical attacks against Iran gain momentum.

Iranian people attend the funeral processions for 300 unidentified martyrs from the 1980s Iran–Iraq war.