A farmer's family in Iran was digging for lemon trees on their farm when they found the remains of three Iraqi soldiers.
According to the foreign news agency, these Iraqi soldiers were killed during the Iran-Iraq war between 1980 and 1988.
The remains of the soldiers were found wearing military dog tags, while several journalists are sharing posts on social media in search of their families.
The discovery was made by a family that owns a farm outside the village of Chia, near the town of Ahvaz in southwestern Iran.
Rafi al-Hafid, a journalist working for the Iraqi TV channel I News, shared a video on Twitter on January 12 showing bones, including two skulls.
The farmer who made the video said, "We were planting lemon trees on our farm so that we could find the remains of two soldiers."
Finally, the remains of three soldiers were discovered with their names and blood groups written on dog tags.
Over the past few years, there have been numerous exchanges of military remnants between Iran and Iraq under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross. In January 2021, Iraq repatriated the remains of 57 Iranian soldiers in exchange for the remains of four Iraqi soldiers.
