From The "And You Thought You Had A Bad Decade" Department.
Iran has released 20 Iraqi prisoners captured during the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran War, the official Iraqi News Agency reported Tuesday. The agency, quoting an Iraqi foreign ministry source, said the Iraqi prisoners arrived at the al-Munthiriya border post 106 miles (170 kilometers) east of Baghdad late Monday. The International Committee of the Red Cross supervised the handover. The source said the joint Iraqi-Iranian committee held a meeting Saturday at Munthiriya and discussed the repatriation of the Iraqi prisoners of war. The two sides also agreed to follow up the issue of missing Iraqis and Iranians.
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