Iran reopens border with northern Iraq

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BASHMAKH, Iraq, Oct 8 (AFP): Iran reopened its border with northern Iraq Monday after a two-week closure imposed in protest at the detention by the US military of an Iranian national.
"Bashmakh border point was open at 9 o'clock," Rostum Kukai, a security guard at the frontier in the Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq, told the news agency.
An AFP correspondent witnessed trucks rolling across the border at Bashmakh, around 130 kilometres (80 miles) northeast of the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah.
Abdul Wahid Koani, mayor of the frontier town of Joman, said the border at nearby Haj Umran was also open.