On Christmas Day in 1983, the southwestern Iranian town of Masjid Soleiman was targeted by the former Ba'athist regime of Iraq, when a number of missiles slammed into a residential neighbourhood of the town.
An Iranian MP, Rasoul Khezri, has strongly condemned the silence of international community and world bodies vis-a-vis former dictator Saddam Hussein's horrible war crimes committed during the eight-year-imposed war on Iran.