Abadan, IRNA – Bodies of 41 Iranian martyrs killed during the eight-year-long Iraqi invasion of Iran has come back to Iran.
The remains of these martyrs entered Iranian soil from the Shalamcheh border crossing on Sunday. A crowd of people participated in the welcoming ceremony for the Iranian fallen heroes.
The bodies of the martyrs had been killed in the Val-Fajr, Kheibar, Badr, Karbala 4, Karbala 5, and Fat'h-ol-Mobin operations.
Iran’s sacred defense refers to the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, during which around 200,000 Iranian soldiers lost their lives in service of their country.
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