Re: Iran - All POWs Freed
Date: February 28, 2004
"All
Iranian, Iraqi POWs released
Tehran, Feb 28 - All Iranian and Iraqi Prisoners Of War (POWs) have been released
based on a Tehran-Baghdad agreement, said an Iranian official here on Saturday.
Head of the general information security department at the commander-in-chief's
office and the POWs commissions brigadier General Abdollah Najafi told reporters
that there are no Iranian POW in Iraq and no Iraq POW in Iran now.
Najafi said the last batch of Iraqi POWs was freed on May 5, 2003, while the
last group of Iranian POWs were released on May 17-18 in 2002.
He said his commission is now following up the case of 7,000 Iranian missing-in-action,
a majority of whom have most probably died.
He added that his commission is now in talks with the International Committee
of the Red Cross to verify fate of the Iranian mias.
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© 2004 Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting News Network
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