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TEHRAN, 16 August (BelTA — IRNA) — The General Staff of the Armed Forces
of the Islamic Republic of Iran has marked the anniversary of Iranian
war prisoners’ release from Iraq, saying the country’s independence and
honor is a result of the nation’s struggle for freedom.
On August
17, 1990, the then-Iraqi Ba’athist regime released over 40,000 Iranian
war prisoners in return for Iran releasing around the same number of
Iraqi war prisoners.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the
Islamic Republic of Iran in a statement on Thursday paid tribute to all
the martyrs of the Sacred Defense (Iraq’s war of aggression on Iran)
and revered all the released war prisoners.
The statement said
that after returning to Iran, the war prisoners played a role in the
country’s progress, especially in the fields of management, knowledge
base and the field of dealing with the enemies’ soft war.
