TEHRAN, (March 25) -- Iran's Army mine cleaners have cleared about 7,000 hectares of land from Iraqi landmines and explosives in southern and western Iran since the end of the 1980-1988 Iraqi-imposed war, an army general said in Khorramshahr, Khuzestan Province.

Brigadier Mohammad Nabizadeh, a deputy head of the Army's Ground Forces, said that 3.217 million anti-personnel mines, 914,000 anti-tank mines as well as 4.236 munitions were defused during the clearance efforts.