
Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani sits and prays near the coffin of an unkown
soldier who was 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 1980-1988 war and died in captivity,
to further steps 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.
(AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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