{"id":4111,"date":"2026-11-10T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T07:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2026-11-10T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T07:03:44","slug":"iraq-to-reopen-key-border-crossing-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4111","title":{"rendered":"Iraq to reopen key border crossing with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iraq was set to reopen the Sheeb border crossing with Iran \u200bon Tuesday morning after completing technical \u200crequirements and necessary procedures, the state news agency \u200bINA said, quoting the head of the country\u2019s Border Ports Authority.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The authority will temporarily close the \u200bMandali border crossing with Iran from Friday \u2060to complete technical requirements, INA reported.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bdevelopments come after <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-asks-iraq-shut-most-iran-border-crossings-iraqi-foreign-minister-says-2026-11-08\/\"><u>Iraqi Foreign Minister<\/u><\/a> Fuad Hussein said \u200bthat the US Treasury had asked Baghdad to close all border crossings with Iran except for two, as \u200bpart of Washington\u2019s efforts to increase economic \u200bpressure on Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many official and unofficial border crossings \u200cwith \u2060Iran, and closing all of them would be difficult and would affect our economy. The Americans are still demanding the closure of the \u200bcrossings, and \u200bwe are \u2060currently in discussions with them,\u201d Hussein told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iraq-closes-sheeb-border-crossing-with-iran-urgent-security-reasons-sources-say-2026-10-21\/\"><u>closed last \u200bmonth<\/u><\/a> the busy Sheeb border crossing \u200bwith \u2060Iran to review security and install detection equipment to stop smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear \u2060whether \u200bthe planned reopening of Sheeb \u200bor the temporary closure of Mandali was related to the \u200bUS request.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq was set to reopen the Sheeb border crossing with Iran \u200bon Tuesday morning after completing technical \u200crequirements and necessary procedures, the state news agency \u200bINA said, quoting the head of the country\u2019s Border Ports Authority. The authority will temporarily close the \u200bMandali border crossing with Iran from Friday \u2060to complete technical requirements, INA reported. The \u200bdevelopments come after Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said \u200bthat the US Treasury had asked Baghdad to close all border crossings with Iran except for two, as \u200bpart of Washington\u2019s efforts to increase economic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}