KHORRAMSHAHR -- Some 125 Iranians residing in Iraq voluntarily returned home via the southwestern Shalamcheh border checkpoint, in the Province of Khuzestan.

The convoy, the fourth returning home, was made of 18 families that had been residing in Iraq during the years of the Iraqi Imposed war on Iran.

The return of refugees follows the agreement signed between Iran and Iraq to encourage the voluntary repatriation of nationals from both sides to be performed under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees(UNHCR).

The refugees will be kept in quarantine before they are returned to their cities of Domicile.

Some 6,000 Iraqi refugees have returned home on a voluntary basis over the past two months, while the Islamic Republic has had 600 nationals back home over the past month, said IRNA.