Al-Monitor, on Iran, 8 November 2026

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US asks Iraq to shut most Iran border crossings, Iraqi foreign minister says

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Nov 8 (Reuters) - The US Treasury has asked Iraq to close all border crossings with Iran except for two as part of Washington's policy of increasing economic pressure on Tehran, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said in an interview with Al Jazeera. One of the exceptions is in the Kurdistan region. "There are many official and unofficial border crossings with Iran, and closing all of them would be difficult and would affect our economy.

The Americans are still demanding the closure of the crossings, and we are currently in discussions with them," Hussein said. Last month, Iraq closed the busy Sheeb border crossing ​with Iran to review security and install detection ‌equipment to stop smuggling. (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

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Al-Monitor, running a short Reuters report, says the US Treasury has asked Iraq to close all but two of its border crossings with Iran. The report attributes the request to Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein and gives his own words on the cost to Iraq's economy. Nothing in it misleads the reader.

What it gets right

  • “Iraqi foreign minister says”

    The headline keeps the attribution the body gives. It does not turn Hussein's account of the US request into the outlet's own fact.

  • “The US Treasury has asked Iraq to close all border crossings with Iran except for two”

    The article names the US body behind the request and the concrete demand. It names Washington's stated aim of economic pressure on Tehran as policy, not as an unseen motive.

  • “closing all of them would be difficult and would affect our economy”

    The article gives the Iraqi government's own account of what the demand costs Iraq, in its minister's words. Iraq is not left as the silent object of a US request.

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