【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 17-20
Some 10 years after warfare between the two countries came to an end, the nations of Iran and Iraq began an exchange of prisoners who had been captured during the Iran-Iraq war, which ranged from 1979 to 1988. Nearly 5 600 of those still held in captivity were Iraqis who had been seized by the Iranian army during the war. The Iranian government agreed to release those prisoners in exchange for some 380 Iranian prisoners held by the Iraqi government. The announced prisoner exchange marked the largest such repatriation of prisoners from the Iran-Iraq war since 1990, when the two governments exchanged more than 70000 soldiers taken captive during the war. Officials from both countries expressed the belief that the repatriation of the remaining prisoners from the Iran-Iraq war might help repair relations between the two neighbors after two decades of war and bitter conflict.
A warming of relations between the two nations had been predicted by political analysts since the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Analysts suggested that Iraq, outcast from the
international community due to its acts of aggression against neighboring Kuwait, might seek to forge a stronger international bond with Iran. Like Iraq, Iran remained on the out-skirts of the international community and viewed by certain members of the international community as a "rogue" state because of its support of Islamic fundamentalist organizations throughout the Middle East. Despite the warming of official relations as evidenced bythe exchange of the prisoners of war, several analysts emphasized that hostility between the two countries remained extremely high—especially among the civilian population,which suffered the brunt of the 1 million casualties from the Iran-Iraq war.
Question 17: How many Iraqi prisoners were still held by the Iranian government according to the news?