Iran shuts border with Iraqi Kurds
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iran has closed its five entry points with Iraq’s Kurdish region in protest against the U.S. military’s recent incarceration of an Iranian, an Iraqi Kurdish official said Monday.
One Iraqi official said the move will hurt the economy of the autonomous region, where there is heavy traffic over the Iraq-Iran border.
Jamal Abdullah, the official spokesman of Iraq’s Kurdistan regional government, said Iran made good on its threat to close the border because the Iranian, Mahmoody Farhadi, had not been released. One of the entry points is in Irbil, two are in Sulaimaniya and two others are in Khanaqin.
American troops arrested the man Thursday in Sulaimaniya, said the U.S. military, which called him a member of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force. The agency has been accused of training and equipping insurgents in Iraq.
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