Iran's Sacred Defence

A former Iranian ambassador has explained his mission in Iraq, rejecting as baseless rumors that Saddam waged war because Iran had ignored his warnings.

President Rouhani said Iranian people displayed unprecedented unity during the eight-year war.

A military parade was staged on September 22 in Tehran where the Iranian armed forces put their defense capabilities on display.

Images of a funeral procession for 275 war martyrs, including 175 divers, in Tehran.

Thousands of people have held a massive funeral procession in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to pay homage to 270 martyrs, whose bodies were recently recovered some 30 years after the end of the Iran-Iraq war.

Images of the remains of several Iranian divers killed by Saddam's Iraq during the imposed war in the 1980s.

Iranians mourn in social networking sites the loss of 175 Iranian divers who are believed to have been buried alive during the Iraqi-imposed war.

Abbas Kiarostami, a famed Iranian filmmaker, is told by those fighting on battlefields about what happened during the Iraq-Iran war which touched the lives of so many people.

The unsung heroes of the Sacred Defense reminisce about the days when a national sentiment of selflessness was popular.

A disabled Iranian was veteran becomes the oldest climber of Mera Peak in the Himalayas.