Iraq closed three border crossings with Iran after officials said drones that hit Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline were launched from Iraqi territory. [1] Al Jazeera named Shalamcheh in Basra, al-Sheeb in Maysan, and Mandali in Diyala. [1] Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi dismissed the Maysan operations commander and opened investigations. [1] Friday this paper printed a precautionary Saudi closure. Saturday Baghdad named a border step.

A closed crossing is not a mapped prohibited zone. Three gates are not Hormuz. Do not stitch this to Perim. Perim is Bab al-Mandab. Do not stitch it to Mokha. Mokha is Thursday's port.

No group claimed the drones in Saturday's file. Iran-backed factions in Iraq denied involvement. [1] A denial is not a cleared case. A dismissed commander is not a conviction. Print the closures. Print the dismissal. Leave a named perpetrator to the edition that owns a named perpetrator.

Temporary is the honest tense. Saturday has no reopen order in fetched copy. Sunday can reopen. Saturday cannot. Print three crossings shut. Leave a strait map blank.

Temporary is the honest tense. A denial is not a cleared case. Hormuz is another map; these are land gates.

Three Iraqi gates shut after a Saudi pipeline hit make a land story. Basra, Maysan, and Diyala are provinces, not a strait. Factions denied the drones; denials do not name a shooter. The crossings stay closed until a reopen order exists.
These are land gates. Denials do not name a shooter. Three gates stay shut.

These are land gates. Three gates stay shut. Saturday's three gates stay shut.

Denials do not name a shooter. These are land gates. Saturday's three gates stay shut.

-- PRIYA SHARMA, Delhi