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Monday, December 18, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Monday, December 18, 2017
Iran reopens border posts with Iraqi Kurdistan
Iran reopens all its border crossings with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, a foreign ministry spokesman says, after their closure over a controversial independence vote.
Bahram Ghassemi says 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.
Iran closed the border crossings after Iraqi Kurds on September 25 voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence at a referendum Baghdad insisted was illegal.
Iran and Turkey, which have Kurdish communities of their own, were also against the poll.
— AFP
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