Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq on the false pretext of destroying the country’s weapons of mass destruction.

March 16 marks the 34th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s chemical attack on Halabja which left some 5,000 civilians dead and around 10,000 others injured.

In February 1979, after demonstrators briefly attacked the US embassy in Tehran, preparing to leave the country an American declared: “We used to run this country. Now we don’t even run our own embassy”.”

A victim of Iraq’s 1987 chemical attack on the Iranian city of Sardasht censures a decision by the British government to grant asylum to an official in the former Ba’athist regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

The Central Criminal Court of Iraq sentences 9 to death over their involvement in the Daesh Camp Speicher massacre back in June 2014.

Iran’s foreign minister has blasted the Western countries that provided former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with deadly chemicals, but now “care not to remember” his massacre of Iraqi people with the same weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

Tehran says it has taken some European firms to international courts over their involvement in Saddam’s chemical attacks on Iranians.