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Article: Problems persist in Iranian city hit by mustard gas in '87.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 14, 2003
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Byline: Joyce Howard Price, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Hundreds of residents of Sardasht - a city of 12,000 in northwestern Iran - still battle breathing problems as a result of exposure to Iraqi sulfur mustard warheads more than 15 years ago, according to a new report by Iranian researchers published in a U.S. medical journal.
The researchers examined the immediate as well as the long-term effects of an Iraqi chemical attack on a small town in Iran in July 1987, when the two nations were at war.
The report, which appeared this week in the Journal of Burns, an online publication, comes as the United States prepares to go to war with Iraq to remove ...