Iraq closed three border crossings with Iran after officials blamed the East-West pipeline attack on a drone from Iraq. [1] Al Jazeera filed the Saturday step. [1] This paper printed that border step. Monday has no reopening in fetched copy. Three closed gates are not a mapped prohibited zone. They are not Hanish, and they are not Salalah. Print closed. Do not print a Hormuz chart.

Leave a named reopen to the edition that owns a named reopen. Print closed. Print not a strait.

Three gates shut on Saturday are still shut on Monday, and the paperwork that would reopen them has no Monday signature. Hanish is a Red Sea island on another page; Salalah is a postponed table on the lead. Border crossings reopen by communique, and no new one has been filed.

Border crossings in a crisis become signals as much as infrastructure: each closure tells Tehran and Washington something about Baghdad's alignment. Three shut gates speak loudly. Their reopening, when it comes, will speak louder.

Three shut gates still speak; Monday has no reopening communique. Salalah is the lead's postponed table. Hanish is another page.

Baghdad's three gates remain shut. Saturday's closure after the East-West blame still has no Monday communique that would reopen them, and this desk will not invent one. Alignment signals are not a Hormuz chart. The lead's postponed table is Salalah, not these crossings.
Alignment signals are not a Hormuz chart. The gates remain shut. This desk will not invent a Monday communique.

Alignment signals are not a Hormuz chart. The gates remain shut. Saturday's closure still has no Monday reopen.

-- PRIYA SHARMA, Delhi