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On Monday, Iraq announced that it was opening the Mandali border crossing in Diyala governorate, which connects Iraq with Iran, in the middle of the two countries.
The border crossing had been closed for nearly five months, as the Iraqi Border Ports Authority explained. It was shut down last August, through a decision of then Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi, because of allegations of corruption in the administration of the border post.
The Border Ports Authority in a statement announced that Abdul Mahdi, who remains Iraq’s interim Prime Minister, has now decided on re-opening the border-crossing on Tuesday, Dec. 24.
The statement explained that the decision came after “the completion of the necessary procedures to re-develop the border-crossing in terms of infrastructure and services while building several offices and bases for the operational staff and providing them with the necessary equipment to prevent the violations that had been taking place before.”
