TEHRAN -- Iran and Iraq have agreed to launch a joint search operation for their MIAs, an Iranian official told a group of reporters in Dehloran border region Saturday.

Colonel Feysal Baqerzadeh, the Iranian officer in charge of the Missed in Action (MIA) combatants committee of the joint staff command, who was supervising the exchange of corpses of 75 Iranian martyrs with the bodies of 59 Iraqi soldiers, said that a joint Iranian-Iraqi search committee will start looking for the remains of the two countries' MIAs in near future.

The joint operation will be launched in Iran's Meymak and Iraq's Mandali region, IRNA reported.

Colonel Baqerzadeh added, "Meanwhile the search operations for finding the MIAs bodies in Fili, al-Imara, Zeyd and Shalamcheh axis have been accelerated during the recent months."

Appreciating the selfless efforts by the MIAs search committee, Baqerzadeh said, "So far 52 officers working for the said committee have been martyred during their reach operations."

He added that ever since the beginning of the exchange program of the Iranian and Iraqi MIAs bodies, Iran has received the corpses of 3,998 martyrs and delivered those of 5,323 Iraqi soldiers to that country's officials.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian military official said that the bodies of the unidentified Iranian MIAs are being buried at graveyard in Talaiyyeh region of Khuzestan Province, but some of them were transferred to Zahedan and Kerman, to be buried in those cities, so that the bereaved families in those regions, whose beloved ones have not still been found, too, could have a spot to mourn at when they miss them.