Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi has met with Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat who was released in May after a long detention in Belgium and Germany on false terror-related charges.
The 26th of Mordad in the Iranian calendar, which falls on August 17, marks the return anniversary of Iranian soldiers who were held captive by the regime of Western-backed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980s war on Iran.
Iran’s foreign minister and a group of survivors of chemical weapons visit Japan as the country remembers the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.