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.