Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ynetnews.com ...


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
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-51 next last
To: my small voice
F U America and your homo President

Unfortunately, our president says FU America.

21 posted on 12/19/2009 4:18:11 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED. Barack OBORTION is a close second.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: La Enchiladita

I gotta say, that Obama could talk anyone into peace, without preconditions.


22 posted on 12/19/2009 4:20:32 PM PST by fhayek (Of course its sarcasm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Enchiladita

Obamao is befuddled in an inactive stupor.


23 posted on 12/19/2009 4:25:57 PM PST by pallis
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pallis

24 posted on 12/19/2009 4:37:43 PM PST by Iron Munro (God is great - Beer is good - People are crazy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: La Enchiladita

Iran’s leader is looking more like Hitler every day.


25 posted on 12/19/2009 4:42:14 PM PST by Brilliant
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Enchiladita

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.


26 posted on 12/19/2009 4:58:55 PM PST by PGalt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Enchiladita

Persia use to have large borders about time people plant flags and damn the torpedoes

Human evolution and perpetual warfare


27 posted on 12/19/2009 5:03:25 PM PST by Flavius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Enchiladita

“Do the Iraqis have an Air Force?”

Under construction. Most of Saddam’s jets were either blown up, flown to Iran at the peak of the 1991 war when the pilots realized that they had no chance, or buried in the desert and now made useless. A military blogger DJ Elliot who posts here from time to time has been keeping track of things. Right now, the IqAF is still in its infancy since most focus is on the army, so all they have at the moment are three C-130s and some small light aircraft (Cessnas, King Air 350s, ect.). They did successfully fire a Hellfire missile from a modified King Air 350 recently, and they are supposed to receive T-6s next year, and F-16s the year to follow.

Can’t happen soon enough, Obama isn’t going to do anything.


28 posted on 12/19/2009 5:08:34 PM PST by ksm1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: FMBass

They are testing and probing


29 posted on 12/19/2009 5:12:43 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: tired1; Farmer Dean; silverleaf; paulycy; Cheetahcat; Ole Okie; steve0; bert; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; ..

The Next Installment HERE *ping*


30 posted on 12/19/2009 5:41:02 PM PST by hennie pennie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

Strongly worded letter is expected any moment now.


31 posted on 12/19/2009 5:48:10 PM PST by steve0 (My plan B: christianexodus.org/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: La Enchiladita; ksm1

Trainers, recon, transports [helo and fixed-wing] are it for now. Fewer than 100 operational aircraft. None of them jets.

OOB listed here.

http://home.comcast.net/~djyae/site/?/page/Iraq_Order_of_Battle/&PHPSESSID=c31d8d22bfa1d9d45d16470aa8e64548

They expect to have 18-24 fighters by 2012. Rebuilt Mirage F1s that were embargoed in France and being made operational.


32 posted on 12/19/2009 6:02:15 PM PST by DJ Elliott
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Bon mots

That looks like a rather feminine frame the Nutjob’s head is patched onto. Intentional?


33 posted on 12/19/2009 7:00:51 PM PST by pa_dweller (Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves:... Isa 1:23)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: DJ Elliott

Very interesting. I don’t know that much about the Mirage F1; I’ll have to do some reading


34 posted on 12/19/2009 7:02:44 PM PST by ksm1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: La Enchiladita

Mullen: :More likely the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Giving Our Allies the Shaft (i.e. JCS/SHAFT).
Half chicken sh*t, half wimp.


35 posted on 12/19/2009 8:29:51 PM PST by ToTheMax
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Enchiladita

Iraq has a small Air Force, but mainly logistical support (helicopters and transport planes). Don’t think they have attack jets or bombers.

The best planes for them would be A10 Warthogs, the old
F-5s, and a couple good A1e Skyraiders with napalm, MGs, and rockets.

Let’s see. The US is supposedly phasing out the A-10 production. Could open it up to the Iraqs. Pay for it with oil money.

nothing scarier than a Warthog coming down on your ass, guns ablazing.

PS. Heard the US is stopping the buying and/or production of the AV Harrier. A big mistake. Could use them by the ton in Afghanistan where there are no real airfields in combat areas. Could land on a road, in the desert or on the roof of a house.

Then again, Mullen is behind a lot of this. So is Obama advisor Jones, another loser. And so is Rosa Brooks, the daughter of an avowed marxist wacko.

We are being subverted from within, without vasoline.


36 posted on 12/19/2009 8:34:36 PM PST by ToTheMax
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: La Enchiladita

I could be wrong here but if they had done this under W, this would have been all the excuse he ever needed to bomb the sh$t out of these bastards. They really are pissing all over this administration.


37 posted on 12/19/2009 8:46:40 PM PST by quesera (We are so screwed!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ColdOne
" Would this be happening if the Bush Reagan administration was here? "

There now, fixed....
38 posted on 12/20/2009 2:29:11 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: pa_dweller
That looks like a rather feminine frame the Nutjob’s head is patched onto. Intentional?

Yes and no...
It's actually the lady at Abu Ghraib who had a prisoner on a leash...

39 posted on 12/20/2009 5:16:42 AM PST by Bon mots
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Bon mots

Lindy! I think she is now a prisoner, no?


40 posted on 12/21/2009 12:15:26 PM PST by La Enchiladita (The debate over "healthcare" legislation is making me SICK.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-51 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson