The ICRC supervised the return of 449 Iraqi prisoners from Iran and 53 Iranian detainees from Iraq at Khosravi-Mundharieh, checking each person’s willingness to go home.
The Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force for Iran, making it a State Party. Iran’s membership connected its wartime chemical weapons experience to the treaty’s prohibition and verification...
Iran submitted its Reply and Defence to the U.S. Counter-Claim.
👉 Five hundred and two captives and detainees return
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16 March 1999
The ICRC supervised the return of 449 Iraqi prisoners from Iran and 53 Iranian detainees from Iraq at Khosravi-Mundharieh, checking each person’s willingness to go home.
Iran announced the release of 480 Iraqi prisoners at the border, according to a later chronology citing contemporary reports. The date identifies the announcement.
A historical study citing contemporary Iranian reports records the release of another 450 Iraqi prisoners, continuing the postwar repatriation process.
Al Bawaba reported the first group in a planned return of 728 Iraqi prisoners. Contemporary claims that this was the final dispatch did not settle all later captivity questions.
