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Iraq
Iran reopens border posts with Iraqi Kurdistan
2017-12-19
[IsraelTimes] Iran reopens all its border crossings with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, a foreign ministry front man 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.

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...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, which have Kurdish communities of their own, were also against the poll.
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