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When were POWs of the Iran-Iraq War released?

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In 1990 Iraq, concerned with securing its forcible annexation of Kuwait (see Persian Gulf War ), agreed to accept the terms of the 1975 treaty with Iran and withdraw its troops from Iranian territory as well as exchange all prisoners of war. An agreement was not signed, however, and both sides held thousands of POWs for many years. Several prisoner exchanges and releases occurred after 1988; the final exchange took place in 2003.

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