In pictures: Iran and Iraq exchange war dead

Iran and Iraq exchanged the remains of 150 soldiers killed in their bloody eight-year war in a ceremony at the border between the two countries.

Iranian soldiers cross into Iraq to hand over the remains of 84 Iraqi soldiers at the border town of Shalamtsheh

Iraqi soldiers in turn returned the remains of 64 fallen Iranians

Iran and Iraq have yet to sign a formal peace treaty - they accuse each other of holding onto prisoners of war

An Iraqi soldier carries the remains of a fallen comrade

Iran is seeking war reparations from a conflict launched by Iraq's Saddam Hussein