"Iran's demand that the future Iraqi government pay reparations for the eight-year war in 1980s, which has been confirmed by UN and even the Iraqi people, is indisputable," Rafsanjani told Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam television.

"We count on receiving reparations from the future Iraqi government," he said.

Iran has filed reparations claims of 100 billion dollars against Iraq for the 1980-88 war.

In 1990, the call for reparations was partially approved by former UN secretary-general Javier Perez de Cuellar.

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