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Article: Iraqi refugees leaving Iran for home
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 12, 2003
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Iraqi refugees leaving Iran for home
TEHRAN, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- About 400 Iraqi families leave Iran
for home per day across the border along Iran's western Ilam
Province, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
The border checkpoint of Mehran, 70 kilometer south of the
provincial capital city of Ilam, officially opened on June 24 to
facilitate Iraqi refugees' leaving for home.
Iran has provided shelters to a total of over 200,000 Iraqi
refugees who fled their country since the gulf war in 1991.
The US-led war on ...