Baghdad's airport will be closed on January 29th and 30th as a security measure to help safeguard the country's elections, Interior Minister Mr Falah al-Naqib said today.
He told a news conference that extended nighttime curfews would also be in place around Iraq over the election period.
Earlier this month, Iraq announced it was also closing land borders over the January 30th election.
Meanwhile the registration deadline for Iraqis voting abroad in their country's election was extended by two days today amid low turnout in some of the 14 countries where voter registration centres were established.
The Geneva-based International Organisation for Migration's Iraq's Out of Country Programme said by Thursday, the fourth day of registration, only about 93,000 of the estimated 1 million eligible voters overall had registered.
"We are extending our operation in an effort to provide Iraqi voters with as much access to our centres as possible," IOM head Mr Peter Erben said in a statement sent to reporters.
"We are hopeful that we will see a significant increase over this weekend that many more Iraqis will come forward to participate in this historic opportunity," he told the BBC's Today programme today.
Registration had been set to close on Sunday but the IOM said it would remain open until Tuesday at the 74 registration centres signing up voters, many of whom fled into exile during Saddam Hussein's rule.
Conditions for Iraq's election are far from ideal and violence is expected on the day, but the vote will go ahead on January 30th and should be credible, the UN's top election official in Iraq said today.
With eight days to go before the country's first multi-party election in nearly half a century, Mr Carlos Valenzuela said he and Iraq's Electoral Commission were in a race against time but remained on target to have everything in place on polling day.
"We've got to the stage where we can say that all electoral preparations are, at least at this point, in place, although there is still a lot of work to be done," Mr Valenzuela (47) told reporters inside the heavily fortified Green Zone compound.
"(Conditions) are not the best and certainly far from ideal, but if the security measures work there is a very good chance that the elections that take place will take place successfully ...and will be accepted as legitimate," he said.