Ministry: Iran to hand over remains of Iraqi soldiers tom.

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: Iraq will receive the remains of soldiers who were killed during its war with Iran tomorrow, a Human Rights Ministry source said on Wednesday. “The remains will be handed over on Thursday (Feb. 4) via the Shalamja border outlet in Basra province,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The handover will be supervised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), he pointed out. An estimated one million persons were killed during the eight-year Iraqi-Iranian war (1980-1988). The Shiite city of Basra lies 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SS (P)/SR 1