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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

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Re: 300 Unearthed and Remembered

Date: May 25, 2000

Iran holds funeral for soldiers killed in Iraq war

TEHRAN, May 26 (Reuters) - Iran held a mass funeral on Friday for 300 soldiers killed in the 1980-88 war with Iraq, whose remains were recently found in former battlefields.

An emotional crowd of several thousand rushed forward to touch the fallen soldiers' coffins, wrapped in Iranian flags, which were carried on trucks to a cemetery south of Tehran.

The remains of some 30,000 Iranian troops missing in action have been found and identified since the end of the war.

An estimated one million Iranians and Iraqis were killed in the war, according to Western sources.

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