[AP/Yahoo] Mick Elmore - Officials from Israel and Iran put aside political animosity Tuesday to work together in using Israeli forensics expertise to identify their dead from the crash of a jetliner on the Thai resort island of Phuket. Six Israelis and 18 Iranians were among the 89 people killed. "It's human nature to help in solving this problem as soon as possible," Safdar Shafiee from the Iranian Embassy in Bangkok said after shaking hands with Yaki Oved, head representative of Israeli police in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. "The main thing is to help. You don't think about the politics," Oved said.
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