In July 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, the Iranian village of Zardeh was hit by Iraqi chemical bombs. Frances Harrison returns to the village to see how local people are coping with the legacy. It was a smell like rotten herbs they say, the odour of a new form of death. Early that morning, in July 1988, the people of Zardeh were gathered in the local shrine. First they heard the planes flying overhead, nothing out of the ordinary for a village nestling in the side of a dusty dry mountain dividing Iran from Iraq. Today everyone mentions how small...