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| Iran, Iraq seek diplomatic end to border dispute |
| 2009-12-20 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Tehran and Baghdad pledged on Saturday to pursue a diplomatic solution to a border dispute over accusations that Iranian troops seized an oil well inside Iraq. The Iranian flag was flying over the disputed oil well in a remote desert area southeast of Baghdad early on Saturday and an Iranian military tent was pitched nearby. "We call for calm and for a peaceful solution to this matter, far from any military escalation," Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters Television in Baghdad. Iran on Saturday acknowledged its takeover of the oil well but insisted the well lies on its land, playing down the fallout from the first such incident since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "Our forces are on our own soil and, based on the known international borders, this well belongs to Iran," Iran's armed forces command said in a statement, quoted by Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam satellite television. On Friday, Iraq's state-owned South Oil Co in the southeastern city of Amara said "an Iranian force arrived at the field ... It took control of Well 4 and raised the Iranian flag even though the well lies inside Iraqi territory." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 We all knew somebody was going to challenge Iraq after the US pulled out, or drew down;now it's show time. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2009-12-20 11:03 |
| #2 " "We call for calm and for a peaceful solution to this matter, far from any military escalation," Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters Television in Baghdad." translation: They have us scared. Try parking an Iraqi Platoon and a Tank beside the well under the Iranian Fort's walls. See if they will fire on it. Have an air strike ready for five minutes later. say it was all a "misunderstanding" which will be true. Make sure there are no survivors in the Fort. Occupy the ruins. Build a road out to it and run up the flag. If they want to fight let them show their stuff. See if Iran can get the support of anyone inside their young people or if the whole world gives a sh8t. Iraq can see if their military is worth anything or if its full of the "usual" Moslem soldiers. Of course if the Iraqi military IS full of Islam that would explain the smell of piss coming from Baghdad. |
| Posted by: Angleton9 2009-12-20 08:58 |
| #1 Once the Iranians get the bomb, you will see more of these types of "border disputes"...maybe even in Trinidad. |
| Posted by: Hammerhead 2009-12-20 08:41 |