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2009-12-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran Trying To Start A Fight, With Iraq?

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-12-18 09:03|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 A10 time!

Posted by Frank G 2009-12-18 09:58|| 2009-12-18 09:58|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm sure we have a few hundred shells we can loan the Iraqi artillery.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-12-18 10:15|| 2009-12-18 10:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Apparently this is an ongoing dance. According to AFP:

NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) Iranian forces took control of a southern Iraqi oil well on a disputed section of the border on Friday, US and Iraqi officials told AFP.

"There has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran,"

"The oil field is in disputed territory in between Iranian and Iraqi border forts," a US military spokesman told AFP at Contingency Operating Base Adder, just outside the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, adding that such incidents occur quite frequently. "An oil ministry delegation is to travel to the area on Saturday to assess the situation."

Well 4 lies in the Fauqa Field, part of a cluster of fields Iraq unsuccessfully put up for auction to oil majors in June. The field has estimated reserves of 1.55 million barrels.

The field is about 500 metres (yards) from an Iranian border fort and about 1 kilometre from an Iraqi border fort, US Colonel Peter Newell said, adding that it falls on the Iraqi side of a border agreed between the two countries.

There are five other similar fields that also fall into disputed territory, he said.

"What happens is, periodically, about every three or four months, the oil ministry guys from Iraq will go ... to fix something or do some maintenance. They'll paint it in Iraqi colours and throw an Iraqi flag up.

"They'll hang out there for a while, until they get tired, and as soon as they go away, the Iranians come down the hill and paint it Iranian colours and raise an Iranian flag. It happened about three months ago and it will probably happen again."

Posted by trailing wife 2009-12-18 11:51|| 2009-12-18 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 As Nero and others fiddled in Copenhagen.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-12-18 14:37|| 2009-12-18 14:37|| Front Page Top

#5 IMO Iran's greater objective would be to test the Bammer's mettle vee Israel + AFPAK as Iran's + ME Oil, ee US-NATO control of same, is always a geopol concern for Russ + China.

Right now Radical Islam sees the whole of CENTRAL-EAST ASIA coming into its hands, EVEN WITH A LARGER US-NATO MILPRES IN AFPAK.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-12-18 18:26|| na 2009-12-18 18:26|| Front Page Top

#6 "They'll hang out there for a while, until they get tired, and as soon as they go away, the Iranians come down the hill and paint it Iranian colours and raise an Iranian flag. It happened about three months ago and it will probably happen again."

Great. Who gets the oil?

Posted by gorb 2009-12-18 21:30|| 2009-12-18 21:30|| Front Page Top

#7 cut off their retreat and trade em for the Berkeley dipshits they're holding.

Posted by Frank G 2009-12-18 22:06|| 2009-12-18 22:06|| Front Page Top

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