· U.S. and Iraqi consultations about Iran's 1984 draft resolution seeking United Nations Security Council condemnation of Iraq's chemical weapons use. Iraq conveyed several requests to the U.S. about the resolution, including its preference for a lower-level response and one that did not name any country in connection with chemical warfare; the final result complied with Iraq's requests.
· The 1984 public U.S. condemnation of chemical weapons use in the Iran-Iraq war, which said, referring to the Ayatollah Khomeini's refusal to agree to end hostilities until Saddam Hussein was ejected from power, "The United States finds the present Iranian regime's intransigent refusal to deviate from its avowed objective of eliminating the legitimate government of neighboring Iraq to be inconsistent with the accepted norms of behavior among nations and the moral and religious basis which it claims."
National Security Archive at George Washington University:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv
Go to the Electronic Briefing Book:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/index.htm
Please also see: Blood Money, By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective Thursday 27 February 2003
http://truthout.org/docs_03/022803A.shtml
and other relevant articles at TRUTHOUT:
http://www.truthout.org
· The 1984 public U.S. condemnation of chemical weapons use in the Iran-Iraq war, which said, referring to the Ayatollah Khomeini's refusal to agree to end hostilities until Saddam Hussein was ejected from power, "The United States finds the present Iranian regime's intransigent refusal to deviate from its avowed objective of eliminating the legitimate government of neighboring Iraq to be inconsistent with the accepted norms of behavior among nations and the moral and religious basis which it claims."
National Security Archive at George Washington University:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv
Go to the Electronic Briefing Book:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/index.htm
Please also see: Blood Money, By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective Thursday 27 February 2003
http://truthout.org/docs_03/022803A.shtml
and other relevant articles at TRUTHOUT:
http://www.truthout.org