The war Iraq imposed on Iran is among those historical events whose national, regional and international impacts have still remained, one of the most horrific events during this eight-year war was Iraqi Army’s chemical attack against Iranians and its own citizens.
‘A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja’ translated by Yaqoub Ne’mati Voroujeni and printed by the Iranian Marz-o-Boum Publication Institute is the most comprehensive and politically impartial book which has been published on this issue.
The book focuses on the events of March 1988, when Iraqi Army led by Saddam Hussein launched a chemical attack against Halabja, a small town in Kurdistan of Iraq where thousands innocent people were massacred. That was one of the most anti-humanitarian tactics adopted by the Iraqi dictator to obstruct the advance of the Iranian military forces.
And as one of the most experienced experts of the Middle Eastern affairs, Joost Hiltermann was Executive Director of Arms Division of Human Rights Watch In the course of writing this book, and he is now the Chief Operating Officer of Crisis Group based in Brussels, Belgium.
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