Iraq and Iran exchanged the remains of dozens of soldiers across the port Shalamjah

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, said a source in the Shalamcheh border crossing in the province of Basra , on Friday, to conduct an exchange for the remains of dozens of Iraqi and Iranian military victims of the war between the two countries, the first exchange of the process during thecurrent year. 

The source said in an interview with Alsumaria's News, " The port has seen two days before the exchange of Iraqi and Iranian military to the remains of the victims of the war of the eighties process , " noting that " Iraq handed over the remains of 98 military Iranian has been found during the past few months in the border areas, and in return received Iraq the remains of 11 Iraqi military. "

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  [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]نائب عن البصرة: ميزان الشاحنات في منفذ الشلامجة عاطل منذ ثلاثة أعوام
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  [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]لجنة المنافذ الحدودية بمجلس البصرة تتوقع دخول مليون زائر أجنبي عبر منافذ المحافظة
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The source , who requested anonymity , that " the Iranian side held a reception of solemn military to the remains of Iranians ceremony," adding that " the process of exchange of the remains in the port took place in the presence of observers from the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) , the first exchange of remains between the two countries takes place during the current year 2017 ". 

The Shalamcheh border port between Iraq and Iran to the east of the province of Basra witnessed in 1996 a first exchange of military to the remains of the process died during the Iran - Iraq war (1980-1988), and since then until now has been a more than 40 exchange process by performing half of which carried out after 2003, with the exchange of the remains of more than 4,500 Iranian and Iraqi fighter large proportion of them have been found in the coastal Faw. 

The Faw overlooking the bay from the far south, and bounded on the Shatt al - Arab from the east, was the scene of the heaviest fighting that punctuated the first Gulf War, and still a lot of berms, trenches and observatories dirt, mines and barbed wire left by those remained the same war, and even the remains of fighters from both sides many of them have been buried in the border areas within the administrative boundaries of the judiciary, and the presence of the remains concentrated in salted area , which was chosen by the Ministry of transport on the part of the implementation of the construction of the port of Faw project.[/size]