Parvizkhan border crossing in the western Kermanshah Province’s Qasr-e Shirin County will be closed on Sept. 30, due to parliamentary elections underway in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, the governor of Qasr-e Shirin said.
“All trade activities as well as the travel of passengers will come to a 24-hour halt on Sunday," Moradali Tatar was also quoted as saying by IRNA on Saturday.
"Iraqi residents in Iran and Iranian residents in Iraq will be permitted to commute from this frontier with Iraq’s Kurdish region during the day."
Iran’s Consulate in Iraq’s Erbil announced on Friday that Bashmaq border crossing in Iran’s Kurdestan Province’s Marivan County will also be closed on Sunday for the same reason.
A total of 773 candidates from 29 political parties in the Iraqi Kurdistan will compete for a seat in the 111-seat parliament in the semi-autonomous region at 5,941 local voting centers.
Just over half of the Kurdistan Region’s population of almost six million people are eligible to vote.
Though the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region technically falls under the federal jurisdiction of the Iraqi Parliament in Baghdad to which it sends provincial representatives, it also has its own parliament in the region's capital of Erbil.
