Baghdad - Iran officially
recognized on Wednesday the Haj Omran border crossing north-east of
the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan region with the aim of
facilitating trade and developing commercial links between the Iraqi
region of Kurdistan and Iran.
The agreement regarding the official recognition of the new border
crossing came after a meeting between the speaker of the Kurdish
regional parliament, Adnan al-Mufti, and a visiting high-ranking
Iranian trade delegation.
Al-Mufti spoke of improved Iraqi Kurdish-Iranian bilateral relations
and of the need to enhance trade and industrial links between the
two parties.
He also endorsed Iran's role in fighting terrorism in Iraq by
controlling the borders between the two countries.
The only official border crossing between Iraq and Iran was the al-Monzuriya
crossing, north-east of Baghdad, although a number of informal
border crossings between the two countries have been utilized,
primarily by Iran to transport its commercial goods into Iraq.
In previous years the unofficial Haj Omran and Bashmak border
crossings had served as the chief transit points for Iran's
commercial goods into Iraq's Kurdistan Region.
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