Tuesday December 19th., 2017
Tehran reopens all border posts with Iraqi Kurdistan
Iran
has reopened all its border crossings with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish
region, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday. Bahram Ghassemi
said the two frontier crossings of Haji Omran and Parwezkhan had been
reopened, without giving a specific date, after the Bashmaq frontier
post began working again in October, AFP reported. Iran closed the
border crossings after Iraqi Kurds on September 25 voted overwhelmingly
in favor of independence at a referendum Baghdad insisted was illegal.
Tehran and Ankara, which have Kurdish communities of their own, were
also against the poll.