Since I don't know beans about this I will not pretend that I do
However I'd like to see some good comments and information on this
Posted on 10/08/2007 9:17:01 AM PDT by KeydetSocrates
Monday October 8, 2007 12:01 PM
By YAHYA BARAZANJI
Associated Press Writer
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) - Iran opened on Monday five border crossing points with Kurdish-run northern Iraq, closed last month by Tehran to protest the U.S. detention of an Iranian here, an Iraqi Kurdish official said.
Elsewhere, a joint U.S.-Iraqi raid in the Baghdad slum and Shiite stronghold of Sadr City ended in the deaths of two men, officials said.
Jamal Abdullah, spokesman for the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq, expressed relief that the crossings reopened at 9 a.m. Monday and added that the decision to reopen them followed a visit by a Kurdish delegation to Iran three days ago.
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
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