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Tuesday, June 9, 1998 Published at 12:55 GMT 13:55 UK World: Middle East Iran and Iraq exchange remains from war Iran and Iraq today exchanged the remains of nearly two-hundred soldiers killed in the Gulf War between the two countries in the nineteen-eighties. Iran handed over the remains of more than a-hundred-and-thirty soldiers, and Iraq delivered more than fifty. The exchange was made on the border in southwestern Khuzestan province. The two countries recently exchanged thousands of prisoners of war. From the newsroom of the BBC World Service |
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