Iran will reopen its border with Kurdish-run northern Iraq which Tehran closed last month to protest the U.S. detention of an Iranian national, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday. Mohammad Jafari, a senior security official, said the decision to reopen the five border crossing points, which will take effect Sunday, was made after a visit to Iran by an Iraqi Kurdish delegation, according to AP. «Given the outcome of talks with the Iraqi delegation, it was agreed to reopen the borders as of Sunday,» IRNA quoted Jafari as saying. Iran closed the border with the Kurdish northern Iraq on Sept. 24 following the arrest of Mahmoud Farhadi, who was taken into custody four days earlier by U.S. troops in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah.
