WORLD IN BRIEF : MIDEAST : Iran Offers Trade: POWs for Territory
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
In a shift that could break its postwar deadlock with Iraq, Iran offered to exchange prisoners of war simultaneously with an Iraqi withdrawal from its border territory. The official new agency IRNA said Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati laid out Iran’s new position to a U.N. envoy in Tehran “to help break the present artificial impasse which benefits no one.”
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