Accounts on 24 years of hosting Iraqi captives released
22 April 2013
Iraqi Captives or Guests is the title of a report on 24 years of hosting Iraqi POWs by the army of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
IBNA: The book is published by the Sacred Defense Values and Works Preservation Organization of Iran’s Army and entails a report on the way Iranians hosted Iraqi captives of the war from 1980 through 2003.
At the beginning of the book, the authors, Mohammad Hassan Habibian and Shadab Askari, unpack the outbreak of the Iraq-imposed war on Iran, and attribute it to the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and endangered US interests in the region.
Furthermore, the writers draw a comparison between the way Iranians kept Iraqi captives and vice versa based on speeches, journals and published works in this regard.
Secrets of the Imposed war according to Iraqi Captives, The Political History of the Imposed War and The International Politics of the Persian Gulf are some of the references the book’s authors referred to to completed the book.
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