Mass Funeral Held in Tehran for Unidentified Martyrs

TEHRAN (defapress) – People in Iran’s capital of Tehran attended funeral processions for 135 unidentified martyrs whose bones have been recently unearthed 30 years after the end of the Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

News ID: 72369

Date: 13 September 2018 - 11:38

A huge crowd of people took part in the funeral processions on Thursday morning, which began at the University of Tehran.

People of different social strata attended the funeral, signifying the Iranian people’s high esteem for martyrs.

The bodies of the martyrs have been retrieved by the missing in action (MIA) search committee of Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff. The soldiers had died during various operations in the country’s southwestern and western border areas in the 1980s.

Iraq, under former dictator Saddam Hussein, invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, imposing a bitter eight-year war on its eastern neighbor.

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