Iran: Oil field is ours, not Iraq's

Y-Net News ^ | Dec. 19, 2009 | Dudi Cohen

[La Enchiladita]

Iran confirmed Saturday that its forces had taken over East Maysan oil field, located on the Iran-Iraq border. The move caused a 2.4% spike in oil prices.

"The Iranian forces are on Iranian soil, as defined by known international borders. This oil field is Iran's" said an Iranian armed forces statement quoted by the Islamic Republic Arab-language television station, al-Alam.

Proprietary of the East Maysan oil field had been the center of a dispute between Tehran and Bagdad for a lengthy period of time.

Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ali al-Khafaji said the move was the latest in a series of Iranian incursions over the past few days, which focused on the Fauqa oil field, some 186 miles south of Bagdad.

The invasion followed an agreement between the Iraqi Oil Ministry and several of the world's leading oil energy companies, to operate seven oil fields.

Iraq slammed the incursion as a violation of its sovereignty and demanded Iran withdraws its troops immediately. This is the first major incident between Iran and Iraq since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

[La Enchiladita]

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff stressed Saturday that the matter must be resolved independently between the two parties.

:-)

[pnh102]

Bomb them.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Sounds like a diversion to me. Get the nukes off the front page.

[mowowie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10_Thunderbolt_II

[SunkenCiv]

additional:

• Iraqi general: Iranian troops 'occupy' oil well on Iraqi border
• Iranian forces take over Iraq oil well
• Iranian forces take over Iraq oil well
• Iraqi Oil Officials Accuse Iranians of Holding Iraqi Oil Field
• Iraq accuses Iran of seizing oil well near border (Drudge)

[rodguy911]

Exactly, they are learning all of Axelrods tricks and quickly.

[La Enchiladita]

Do the Iraqis have an Air Force?

[LibWhacker]

‘Course, the impostor from Kenya will do absolutely zilch about it.

[my small voice]

Translation of title: F U America and your homo President.

[ColdOne]

Would this be happening if the Bush administration was here?

[La Enchiladita]

Who is the U.S. ambassador to Iraq these days, I wonder....?

[FMBass]

Oh man! Those Iranians are just begging for another sternly worded letter from the UN, aren’t they!

[Leo Carpathian]

Kenyan will apologize and there will be peace!

[VanDeKoik]

Who is the U.S. ambassador to Iraq these days, I wonder....?

[bray]

They sure ain’t afraid of Baby Obozo so why not take an oil field?

Mary Christ-mas

[penelopesire]

an utter policy wimp who earned his ‘appeasement stripes’ in the peace corp.

http://iraq.usembassy.gov/iraq/ambassador.html

[Bon mots]

More Nobel Peace Prizes are needed!
Hurry, call Oslo!

The Evil Dictators and Mullahs can just smell the weakness in this feeble neophyte. He will roll over for them when Ahmadinejad is through with him.

Pray for our troops.
The Commander-in-Chief has been figured out as a toothless pussycat by the Mullahs.
They are right.

[elcid1970]

From the Iranians to Obama:

How now, brown cow?

[GeronL]

what foreign corporation just bought that well? lol.

[GeronL]

in training with T-6’s or something