What the records say
- When
- 9 Jan 1986
- Kind
- Military operation
- Deaths
- 90
- Coordinates
- 30.57° N, 48.14° E
- Description
- 1986 military operation
Chemical attack on Behbahan battalion
On 9 January 1987, at the beginning of the Battle of Shalamcheh, in the midst of the Iran–Iraq War, the Iranian Behbehan Battalion came under a heavy aerial chemical bomb attack by Iraqi forces. The Behbahan Battalion was positioned near Shalamcheh, in the south of Iran, about 10 km from the port of Khorramshahr.
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