10000 Iranian Martyrs are still Missing

According to the Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) representative office in Tehran Olivier Martin, Iranian Investigation Committee had a very great success on the issue of soldiers Missed in Action (MIA) in the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988) and if they did not take these measures, there were more missing.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers lost their lives in this war. Over the past two decades, the Iranian government has launched various search operations to locate the remains of Iranians and Iraqis who went missing during the war. The ICRC had pledged to provide financial assistance to Iran to keep the search operations going.
Martin, in a press conference in Tehran on Sunday afternoon, stated that among main approaches of the ICRC in year 2014 would be continuation of cooperation with its principal partner in Iran, particularly Iran\\\'s Red Crescent Society. “The Red Cross provides its techniques for further interaction between Iran and Iraq for searching for and finding the bodies,”? she added.
Since the late 2011, 800 missing bodies were exchanged between Iran and Iraq, among them 530 were Iranian.

According to the Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) representative office in Tehran Olivier Martin, Iranian Investigation Committee had a very great success on the issue of soldiers Missed in Action (MIA) in the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988) and if they did not take these measures, there were more missing. Hundreds of thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers lost their lives in this war. Over the past two decades, the Iranian government has launched various search operations to locate the remains of Iranians and Iraqis who went missing during the war. The ICRC had pledged to provide financial assistance to Iran to keep the search operations going. Martin, in a press conference in Tehran on Sunday afternoon, stated that among main approaches of the ICRC in year 2014 would be continuation of cooperation with its principal partner in Iran, particularly Iran\\\'s Red Crescent Society. “The Red Cross provides its techniques for further interaction between Iran and Iraq for searching for and finding the bodies,”? she added. Since the late 2011, 800 missing bodies were exchanged between Iran and Iraq, among them 530 were Iranian.