What is Iran acknowledging about oil well takeover?
“Our forces are on our own soil and, based on the known international borders, this well belongs to Iran,” the 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.” Baghdad has demanded that “Tehran pull back the armed men who occupied well No 4” and condemned the incident as “a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.” It was the first serious incident between the two neighbours since the US-led invasion of 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein, whose forces fought a 1980-1988 war against Iran. Many leaders of Shiite parties who were exiled to Iran during the Saddam era are now in power in Baghdad. “It’s a sovereignty issue” which has to be resolved by Iraqi leaders, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mi
“Our forces are on our own soil and, based on the known international borders, this well belongs to Iran,” the 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.” Baghdad has demanded that “Tehran pull back the armed men who occupied well No 4” and condemned the incident as “a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.” It was the first serious incident between the two neighbours since the US-led invasion of 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein, whose forces fought a 1980-1988 war against Iran. Many leaders of Shiite parties who were exiled to Iran during the Saddam era are now in power in Baghdad. “It’s a sovereignty issue” which has to be resolved by Iraqi leaders, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mi
“Our forces are on our own soil and, based on the known international borders, this well belongs to Iran,” the 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.” Baghdad has demanded that “Tehran pull back the armed men who occupied well No 4” and condemned the incident as “a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.” It was the first serious incident between the two neighbours since the US-led invasion of 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein, whose forces fought a 1980-1988 war against Iran. Many leaders of Shiite parties who were exiled to Iran during the Saddam era are now in power in Baghdad. “It’s a sovereignty issue” which has to be resolved by Iraqi leaders, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mi
“Our forces are on our own soil and, based on the known international borders, this well belongs to Iran,” the 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.” Baghdad has demanded that “Tehran pull back the armed men who occupied well No 4” and condemned the incident as “a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.” It was the first serious incident between the two neighbours since the US-led invasion of 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein, whose forces fought a 1980-1988 war against Iran. Many leaders of Shiite parties who were exiled to Iran during the Saddam era are now in power in Baghdad. “It’s a sovereignty issue” which has to be resolved by Iraqi leaders, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mi
