The border crossing point on the Iranian side is at Mirjaveh.

But the Iranian side offered no new substantive concessions, they said.

A message went through to the United Nations headquarters on the Iranian side.

The death toll was extraordinarily high, with over a half a million dead on the Iranian side alone.

There is also the matter of receptivity on the Iranian side.

Then, on the Iranian side, the guards mysteriously refused to take the pilgrims in.

"The Iranian side wants to continue with negotiations, and we are going to proceed from there."

Whether on the Iranian side or the Iraqi, that didn't matter, either.

So we hope to hear exactly on which points the Iranian side is seeking more information, which we will give to them.

I hope we shall be able to clarify those ambiguities to the satisfaction of the Iranian side.