The memory of the eight-year war imposed by then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Iran with the support of Western states continues to inspire resistance movements, says a war veteran.

Iran is commemorating Sacred Defense Week when the Iraqi Baathist regime and its foreign backers in September 1980 launched a no-holds-barred war against the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani says the ultimatum given to iraq to disarm Kurdish separatist groups will not be extended.

On July 26, 1988, the MKO terror cult, a key ally of Iraqi Baathist regime at the time, launched an attack to overthrow the Islamic Republic. In response, Iran's military launched a counterattack codenamed Operation Mersad that crippled the MKO forces that suffered over 4,800 casualties.

Iranian victims of chemical weapons, used by the Saddam regime during the 1980s war on Iran, are suing two Dutch firms for supplying chemicals to Iraq.

It was a grave miscalculation by the West-backed Saddam regime. Khorramshahr, with only a few thousand armed men, successfully resisted tens of thousands of foreign invaders for a full month and a half.

Iran censures German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock for commenting on human rights in the Islamic Republic.