Tragedy of Iraqi chemical attack on Sardasht fascinates Baikal film festival

TEHRAN – Iranian director Mohammad-Hossein Mahdavian’s drama “Walnut Tree” has won the Leonid Gaidai award for best feature at the 20th Baikal International Film Festival in Russia.

Zarif commemorates victims of Sardasht chemical bombardment

TEHRAN — In a message on Monday morning, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif commemorated the 34th anniversary of the horrendous chemical weapons attack by Saddam Hussein’s regime on the Iranian city of Sardasht.

Exhibit features indigenous Iranian handicrafts, cuisines, and textiles

TEHRAN – An exhibition of local Iranian handicrafts, cuisines, and handwoven textiles has opened to the public in the city of Sardasht, West Azarbaijan province.

DEFC ready to screen movie on tragedy of Sardasht chemical attack

TEHRAN – “Where the Winds Die”, an animated movie about Iraq’s chemical attack on the Iranian town of Sardasht in 1987, has been completed and will be ready for screening within the next two months.

Three Iranian border guards martyred in border clash

TEHRAN — Three Iranian border guards have been martyred during a clash with armed thugs, IRNA reported on Friday.

By Bahman Vakhshur

“Walnut Tree”: story of enemies’ sustained evil

“Walnut Tree” is Mohammad-Hossein Mahdavian’s latest film in the docudrama genre. The director has already shown his ability and skill in this genre with “The Midday Event” and “Standing in the Dust”.

Iranian Kurds welcome “Walnut Tree”

TEHRAN – Mohammad-Hossein Mahdavian’s new film “Walnut Tree”, on the profound tragedy of Iraq’s chemical attack on the Iranian town of Sardasht in 1987, has been warmly received by people in the Iranian Kurdish-speaking regions.

Tehran-Sardasht car rally to promote peace and friendship

TEHRAN – Today, a group of drivers will hit the road heading from Tehran to the northwestern city of Sardasht in a car rally which is aimed to promote peace and friendship.

Those who annihilate generations with bombs seek nuclear weapons: Zarif

Zarif: Iranians don’t believe the West’s opposition to WMDs

TEHRAN – With an indirect reference to dropping of atomic weapons on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the U.S. in August 1945 in which more than 200,000 people were killed, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday that those kill “millions of people” are seeking to build nuclear weapons and not Iran.