Tehran, April 28, IRNA -- Tehran Public Court has passed a verdict
ordering the US government to pay dlrs 600 million compensation for
Iranian nationals from the northwestern town of Sardasht who were the
victims of Iraqi chemical attack.
The verdict was issued as per a legal action made by a number of
victims in Sardasht against the US government.
Iraq carried out its first chemical attack against residents of
the northwestern town of Sardasht in 1987 killing and wounding men,
women and children living in the town.
Meanwhile, the same court (the third branch of Tehran Public
Court) has issued two other verdicts demanding compensation from the
US government as per indictments lodged by victims of anti-Iran policy
of the United States.
The verdicts have been forwarded to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran
which looks after the US Interest Section.
The three verdicts required the US government to pay dlrs 1.8
billion compensation to Iranian nationals.
Washington encouraged Saddam Hussein of Iraq to initiate an
unconventional war on Iran several months after the victory of the
Islamic Revolution in February 1979.
