The Iraqi authorities have reported the seizure of a launcher that would have been used in the attack carried out on Friday against the East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia, an incident that forced Riyadh to order the temporary closure of the facility.
The head of the Security Media Cell of Iraq, Saad Maan, detailed that the security forces "located and seized the launcher on Iraqi territory" as part of "significant efforts" to clarify what happened and "arrest those involved in the attack against Saudi Arabia."
In statements to the television network Al Iraqiya, Maan also pointed out that Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi has given the green light to "a request from Iran to participate in the investigation," emphasizing that Baghdad maintains "communication at various levels" with the Saudi authorities regarding this attack.
He also stressed that "Iraq applies a policy of 'preventive sovereignty,' which involves not only preventing attacks against our own territory but also refusing to allow our land to serve as a launch platform for attacks against any other country, or consenting to Iraq becoming a scene of a reckoning or a proxy war."
On the other hand, the Security Media Cell made public this Friday a schedule to reopen three border crossings with Iran that were closed on Saturday after the attack, a decision that was accompanied by the dismissal of the police commander of Misan province, from where the implicated drones took off.
According to this schedule, one of the crossings has already resumed its activity, while the other two will resume transit between Monday and Tuesday, according to a statement disseminated on social media by this agency linked to the Armed Forces of Iraq.