Reports indicate the closure or interruption of traffic for several hours at the Shlamakh/Al-Shayib crossing on the Iran-Iraq border.

Reports indicate the closure or interruption of traffic for several hours at the Shlamakh/Al-Shayib crossing on the Iran-Iraq border.

The Al-Arabiya network claimed that Iraqi government officials plan to close several key crossings between this country and Iran and may limit movement between the two countries to two border crossings.

Baghdad and Tehran have yet to respond to this report.

Iran's government news agency - IRNA - announced on Tuesday the issuance of permits for the entry of all Iranian trucks containing agricultural products into Iraq and wrote: "The Iraqi government has officially issued permits for the entry of all trucks carrying onions, tomatoes and potatoes that were stopped and piled up behind Iran's borders for several days and behind Iran's borders."

In the meantime, the news site Shafaqnews in Iraq, citing a government source, announced the closure of the Heba border crossing from Wednesday "for technical reasons until further notice".

Shlamcha and Chadaba are the most important official crossings of Iran and Iraq in Khuzestan.

IRNA