Soldiers and a veiled female relative carry the coffin of Morteza Isakhani, who was
killed during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran,
Wednesday, July 24, 2002. Iraq and Iran on Sunday exchanged the remains of 1,736
POW soldiers who were captured during the 1980-1988 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.(AP
Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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