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Airstrikes/Border crossing connecting Iraq with Iran closed

2026-04-04 14:47:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Airstrikes/Border crossing connecting Iraq with Iran closed

A border crossing connecting Iraq with Iran has been targeted in an airstrike and media reports say an Iraqi civilian has been killed in the attack.

The head of Iraq's Border Ports, Omar al-Waeli, announced the suspension of commercial traffic and passenger movement through the Shalamcheh border crossing as a result of the airstrike.

This decision, he said, came after an airstrike on the Iranian side, which resulted in the death of an Iraqi citizen and the injury of five others near the Iraqi border crossing.

The Shalamcheh crossing is commonly used by Iraqi and Iranian travelers to depart and arrive by land, especially during holiday seasons and periods of religious pilgrimage.

During the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, this crossing became one of the main front lines of the war. Iraqi forces used it as a key invasion route early in the conflict, and the area witnessed some of the fiercest and deadliest fighting of that conflict. /CNA





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