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Iran: Oil field is ours, not Iraq's
Y-Net News ^
| Dec. 19, 2009
| Dudi Cohen
Posted on 12/19/2009 3:45:05 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: axisofevil; fakka; fakkaoilfield; fauqa; fauqaoilfield; iran; iraq; iraqioil; israel; oil; oilfields; wot
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Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff stressed Saturday that the matter must be resolved independently between the two parties. :-)
To: La Enchiladita
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posted on
12/19/2009 3:51:40 PM PST
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: La Enchiladita
Sounds like a diversion to me. Get the nukes off the front page.
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posted on
12/19/2009 3:53:53 PM PST
by
Bringbackthedraft
(This isn't my America any more, where is Mrs Cleaver?)
To: La Enchiladita
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posted on
12/19/2009 3:55:56 PM PST
by
mowowie
To: La Enchiladita
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posted on
12/19/2009 3:55:58 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: Bringbackthedraft
Exactly, they are learning all of Axelrods tricks and quickly.
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posted on
12/19/2009 3:57:15 PM PST
by
rodguy911
(HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
To: mowowie; pnh102
Do the Iraqis have an Air Force?
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posted on
12/19/2009 3:58:18 PM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(The debate over "healthcare" legislation is making me SICK.)
To: La Enchiladita
‘Course, the impostor from Kenya will do absolutely zilch about it.
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posted on
12/19/2009 3:59:46 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
(America awake!)
To: La Enchiladita
Translation of title: F U America and your homo President.
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:01:48 PM PST
by
my small voice
(A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
To: All
Would this be happening if the Bush administration was here?
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:04:10 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(ColdOne (Vote them out!))
To: LibWhacker
Who is the U.S. ambassador to Iraq these days, I wonder....?
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:04:36 PM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(The debate over "healthcare" legislation is making me SICK.)
To: La Enchiladita
Oh man! Those Iranians are just begging for another sternly worded letter from the UN, arent they!
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:09:07 PM PST
by
FMBass
("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
To: my small voice
Kenyan will apologize and there will be peace!
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:10:44 PM PST
by
Leo Carpathian
(fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
To: La Enchiladita
Who is the U.S. ambassador to Iraq these days, I wonder....?
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:11:12 PM PST
by
VanDeKoik
(Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
To: La Enchiladita
They sure ain’t afraid of Baby Obozo so why not take an oil field?
Mary Christ-mas
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:12:34 PM PST
by
bray
(Palin can see the White House from her Porch)
To: La Enchiladita
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:13:03 PM PST
by
penelopesire
("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
To: La Enchiladita
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.
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:13:56 PM PST
by
Bon mots
To: my small voice
From the Iranians to Obama:
How now, brown cow?
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:14:08 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
To: La Enchiladita
what foreign corporation just bought that well? lol.
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:17:14 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: La Enchiladita
in training with T-6’s or something
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posted on
12/19/2009 4:17:48 PM PST
by
GeronL
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