A chemical bomb dating back to the Iraq-Iran war era (1980-1989) was discovered in the Kurdish city of Sardasht on the Iraqi-Iranian border. The bomb, weighs 100 kilograms (224 lbs) and it is of a similar kind to the four chemical bombs that Saddam Hussein had used against Sardasht and Halabcha.
To this day, 5000 of the residents of Sardasht suffer from lung, skin and other diseases because of exposure to the chemical weapons.
Source: http://www.iranpressnews.com/english/source/102975.html
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