
Iranian soldiers carry coffins of POWs killed during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88,
in a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 24, 2002. Iraq and Iran on Sunday
exchanged the remains of 1,736 prisoners-of-war who were captured during the war
and died in captivity, a further step toward normalizing relations between the two
neighbors. Iraq handed over the remains of 570 Iranian and Iran delivered the bodies
of 1,166 Iraqi soldiers. In the background are pictures of Iran's late revolutionary
leader Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
(AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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