By IRNA
Tehran : Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said Sunday that the recent closure of Iran-Iraq border was not related to the detention of an Iranian national in northern Iraq.
Speaking to domestic and foreign reporters at his weekly press conference, Hosseini said, “The closure has other reasons which are under discussion by respective officials.”
Mahmoud Farhadi, a member of an Iranian trade delegation, was arrested by the US forces in Sulaimaniya in northern Iraq on September 20 as he was on an official visit at the head of an economic delegation.
“I do not agree with relating the issue of Farhadi’s detention to the closure of the Iranian borders with Iraq,” Hosseini said.
He also commented on some moves made in Iranian border areas by the occupying forces in Iraq and by some of the Iraqi terrorist groups.
“These terrorist groups have made some operations in Iranian and Turkish border areas such as smuggling weapons and foreign currencies, which were properly confronted by Iranian border guards,” Hosseini said.