- IRAN IN IRAQ -
Iran Seized Iraqi Oil Well No. 4 after Crossing Border with Tanks
Friday, December 18, 2009
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(I’m really surprised this hasn’t been all over the Cable News Networks today...)
* Canada.com brings us the following troubling news that starts off like this... Iraq on Friday demanded Iran immediately withdraw its forces from an Iraqi oil well, which it accused the Islamic republic of seizing after crossing the border with tanks... Despite an Iranian agency report denying there had been any incursion, Iraq's deputy interior minister said that 11 Iranian soldiers had dug in at the well in the Fauqa Field after raising the Iranian flag there... An Iraqi border general said the Iranians "positioned tanks... and dug trenches" around the field's Well No. 4, while other officials said the incursion was the latest of several like it this week... Iraq is the third largest oil producer in the Middle East, while Iran is second only to Saudi Arabia... "Iraq will not give up its oil wealth," Iraq's interior minister, Jawad al-Bulani, pledged in a televised statement... Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, called an emergency meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council, which ruled Iran had violated Iraq's "territorial integrity" and issued the demand for withdrawal...
Read the rest at link below...
Iraq, Iran play cat-and-mouse game over oil well
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* The New York Times has this report posted up on their website this Friday afternoon. It starts off like this... The Iraqi government said Friday that Iranian troops had crossed the border and occupied a portion of an oil field situated on disputed land between the two countries, but Iranian officials immediately and vehemently disputed the account...
Read the full report at link below...
Iraq and Iran Trade Accusations Over Oil Field
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* Telegraph.co.uk has the following report that goes in part like this... Iran has been unsettled by recent deals to develop Iraq's oil industry, which are likely to see its Arab neighbor emerge in its place as the world's second biggest oil state... Oil experts believe Iran is attempting to deter investment in Iraq's oil industry by targeting fields that are to be auctioned to foreign oil companies... "The incursion only goes to highlight the still very uncertain conditions on the ground in Iraq that have been impeding the recovery of the country's oil sector," said Harry Tchilinguirian, a London-based industry analyst...
Read the full report at link below...
Iran invades 'Iraqi' territory to seize oil field
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* AJC.com has the following report today... Crude [OIL] prices rose Friday after Iranian troops crossed into Iraq and seized an oil field... Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Haj Mahmoud said Iranian soldiers surrounded a well in the al-Fakkah oil field, only 200 miles southeast of Baghdad. It is one of the country's largest oil fields... Just last week, major oil companies were in Baghdad to bid on oil service contracts as the country opens up to foreign companies for the first time in 30 years... Deals were reached in only seven of 15 oil fields, and most of those were in areas that have been relatively stable and free of violence... Iranian troops are believed to have left the region and it remains to be seen if any weight will be given to the border crossing Friday... A U.S. official said Iranians have crossed into the disputed region before, but this is the furthest inland that they have ventured...
Read this report in full at link below...
Oil jumps after Iranians seize Iraqi oil field
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POST UPDATE:
Saturday, December 19, 2009
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* China View has this report posted up on their website this Saturday morning and it goes in part like this... The al-Fakkah oilfield was first drilled by Iraqis in 1979 as part of the Iraqi territories before the Iraqi-Iranian eight-years war in 1980... However, the oilfield is now considered a shared one and both Iran and Iraq have the right to pump from it, but the Iraqis consider the well No. 4 theirs...
Read their full report at link below...
Iran rejects reports of Iraqi oil well seizure as attempt to harmties
[ Politics between two countries -- What a MESS!!! ]
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* Telegraph.co.uk has the following report which is about what one would expect following this latest move by Iran... It starts off like this... Iran has called for a diplomatic solution after 11 of its soldiers were accused of seizing an oil well inside the territory of Iraq...
Read this report at link below...
Diplomatic solution sought over Iraq oil well
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* AP has this report on the latest out of Iraq... Iraq deployed security forces Saturday near a remote oil well seized by Iran, officials said, and its government pressed Tehran to withdraw its forces from the area along their disputed southern border... U.S. officials applauded Iraq for standing its ground against Iran - an uneasy ally that analysts said was aiming to remind its neighbor of its economic and political pull in its takeover of the oil well Thursday. The site is located in one of the largest oil fields in Iraq and has about 1.5 billion barrels in reserves...
Read the full report at link below...
Iraq sends forces to oil well seized by Iran
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* Tehran Times had the following report posted up on their website this Saturday afternoon and it starts off like this... Iran and Iraq plan to establish an arbitration commission to settle the dispute over the ownership of an oil well located on their shared border, the Iranian ambassador to Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, said on Saturday...
Read the rest at link below...
Iran, Iraq to establish arbitration commission: ambassador
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