Iran releases 450 Iraqi prisoners by the end of this week

The Iraqi foreign ministry said on Tuesday that Iran will release by the end of the current week some 450 Iraqis who were classified as missing since the Iraqi- Iranian war which erupted between 1980 and 1988.

The Iraqi magazine al-Rafedin quoted an official at the Iraqi foreign ministry as saying that the missing are the last shift of the detainees in the Iranian camp of Kaheryazk which was included 4500 Iraqi prisoners.