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Iraq-Iran oil well dispute to weaken Maliki
22 hours ago ago from Roads to Iraq
Update There is a report says that Iraq deployed its troops to the borders Maliki tries regain what is already lost? End update Iran rejected Iraq's claims of invading an oil well saying according to Algiers Agreement, this well belongs to Iran. The interesting part is the statement released by Iraq's border guards saying: We have strict instructions not to respond to any Iranian action. As always in Iraq, different statements made ...
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23 hours ago ago from Gorilla's Guides
Iranian ambassador says joint committee should settle row Iraq calls for peaceful solution Iraq says crude output, exports unaffected Iran troops still at Fakka oil field, official says BAGHDAD, Dec 19 ( Reuters ) Tehran wants to solve by diplomatic means a dispute with Baghdad over accusations that Iranian troops seized an oil well inside Iraq, a spokesman at the Iranian embassy said on Saturday. The Iraqi government also called ...
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1 day ago ago from Italy Entertainment News
from 8 hours 46 minutes Some Iranian soldiers have encroached into Iraqi territory today and took position in a disputed oil field with Iran. Continue reading this story, said the Iraqi deputy interior minister Ali Ahmed al-Khafaji, adding that the raid today the latest in a series that have taken place in recent weeks in the field of FAKK, about 300 km southeast of Baghdad. The Iraqi government has in the evening called for the immediate ...
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9 hours ago ago from Defense-Technology News
DTN News: Iran Rejects Reports Of Oil Well Seizure In Iraq * Source: DTN News / Int'l Media (NSI News Source Info) TEHRAN, Iran - December 20, 2009: Iran rejects reports that its forces have taken over an oil well within Iraqi borders, while a Baghdad official admits the site is in a disputed border area. In a Saturday phone interview with Press TV, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman described reports about the country taking over an ...
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20 hours ago ago from HillBuzz
Back in October of 2002, we remember sitting around the TV watching debate on the Iraq War resolution the Senate was passing. We did not believe the Bush Administration's reasons for going to war with Iraq. The whole case for taking the paper tiger of Baghdad out because he supposedly had weapons of mass destruction that could assault the United States was as plausible to us as claiming war was necessary because Saddam Hussein must not ...
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Iran Claims an Oil Field It Seized
18 hours ago ago from The New York Times
BAGHDAD The Iranian government said Saturday that an oil field that its troops occupied a day earlier was on its side of the border with Iraq , despite Iraqi claims to the contrary. A group of about 11 Iranian soldiers seized a portion of the remote Fakka oil field in Maysan Province in southeastern Iraq early Friday, according to Iraq. Government officials in Baghdad said they had summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest the military ...
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15 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
BAGHDAD 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 ...
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