🔻 The Chadaba crossing on the Iran-Iraq border has been closed. Reuters news agency, citing an Iraqi official, said that this high-traffic crossing was closed to check security measures and install testing equipment, with the aim of preventing the smuggling of prohibited substances.

🔻 The Chadaba crossing on the Iran-Iraq border has been closed. Reuters news agency, citing an Iraqi official, said that this high-traffic crossing was closed to check security measures and install testing equipment, with the aim of preventing the smuggling of prohibited substances.

But Agence France-Presse reported, citing Iraqi officials, that the Iraqi government is under pressure from the United States to close more crossings and increase pressure on Iran.

A US government official declined to comment on Washington's pressure on Baghdad to close land routes between the two countries in response to a question from BBC Farsi.

He emphasized that the consultation between the United States and Iraq and the Arab countries bordering the Persian Gulf continues and assessed the results of the negotiations, including with Iraq, as "positive".

Regarding the land crossings between Iran and Pakistan, the head of the free zone in Ramadan said that imports and exports at this border resumed after several days of disruption.

Report from Gancha Habibiazd of the Verification Department.