AFTERMATH OF WAR: The Diplomatic Front : In Iran
Iran plans to SEND FOOD TO IRAQ, Iran’s official news agency reported. The first shipment will include powdered milk, baby food, flour, cooking oil and fruit, the Islamic Republic News Agency said. U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar was informed of Iran’s decision to send food, it said. The International Committee of the Red Cross will help ship the food across the border and the Red Crescent, the Islamic equivalent to the Red Cross, will distribute it. In a separate dispatch, the agency said 56 Iranians captured in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War were freed by Baghdad. Baghdad earlier claimed that all had been released. Tehran is to free a similar number of Iraqis.
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