Press reports say Iran and Iraq have signed accord to extradite wanted ’convicts and criminals’

Iran and Iraq have signed an accord to extradite "convicts and criminals" wanted by the two neighbors, state television's website and newspapers reported on Monday.

Justice Minister Morteza Bakhtiari and his visiting Iraqi counterpart Hassan al-Shammari signed the agreement late on Sunday, Aftab-e Yazd newspaper said.

According to state television's website, the agreement will allow the "repatriation of convicts and criminals, including those who have fled their country, to stand trial and await implementation of their sentence."

Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, who oversaw the signing of the agreement, lauded the Iraqi government's measures, the television website said. But Larijani did not specify if Iran would use the agreement to ask for the extradition of Mujahedeen members.

Quoted by Iran's official IRNA news agency, Shammari said Baghdad was determined to expel the group from the camp.