Sardasht

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Sardasht (in Kurdish: Serdeşt, also Zerdeşt) is a city in Northwestern Iran with more than 50,000 inhabitants, [2] southwest of Lake Urmia about 1,300 metres above sea level. It lies in the West Azarbaijan province. It was the first city in which civilians where attacked with chemical weapons by Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. Although it happened even before Halabcha it didn't get much publicity at the time because Iran was being ignored by international community.

The population of Sardasht is Kurdish. Sardasht is also known for the many villages around it and their reliability on the city's market.

Sardasht is the first town in the world to be gassed and out of a population of 20,000, 5,000 people are still suffering severe illnesses from the attacks. That’s a quarter of the population of this town.^[1] The gas attacks occurred during the Iran-Iraq War, when Iraq frequently used chemical weapons against Iranian civilians and soldiers.