Iran invades Iraq?!
December 30th, 2009Iranian troops have occupied an oil well in Iraq. Zhaf Nazhmi, a general of the Iraqi border forces, said on Friday before the press in Baghdad: “Iranian troops keep the source point 4 of the oil field east Missan since yesterday (Thursday) morning reception.” In media was that the Iranians would have hoisted their flag over the field.
Eleven Iranian soldiers Friday raised their country’s flag over the oil well in a border area disputed by Iran and Iraq. They have since withdrawn slightly, giving up control of the well; Iraq has demanded a full withdrawal.
Iraq dismissed the reports. “This message is not true,” said Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ali al-Chafadschi on Friday. The disputed oil field on the border had not been stormed. “It is empty, it is abandoned.”
The Operator Group Maysan Oil Company did not take the information has been submitted. Neither the defense nor the Iraqi Oil Ministry had initially reached comments.
The message reinforced in the international financial markets, the dollar, which made up for some of its losses against the euro again. Also, the oil price put easily in the sequence.
Iraq – then under President Saddam Hussein – and Iran led from 1980 to 1988 a devastating war that took the hundreds of thousands on both sides killed. Admittedly, the relationship between the two countries since the fall of Saddam has improved somewhat. However, standing in Iraq, more than 100,000 soldiers in the U.S., the sworn enemy of Iran. Move seen as largely symbolic but a warning to foreign oil players dealing with Iraq.
Although the seizure was largely symbolic, what many Iraqis saw as a weak response from Mr. Maliki could spell trouble for the prime minister in a parliamentary election scheduled for March 7. A Shi’ite Muslim, he has historic ties to Shi’ite majority Iran.
“This is a clear message to the foreign oil companies: You cannot come and exploit Iraqi oil while at the same time your governments are putting pressure on us,” analyst Ghassan al-Attiyyah of the Iraq Foundation for Democracy and Development said.
The Iranian occupation of the well, which Iraq considers part of its Fakka oilfield in southeast Maysan province, met little apparent resistance from Iraqi forces.
Iran said its troops acted to dismantle a barrier erected recently by Iraqi soldiers. The well, inoperative for decades, is considered small by local standards.
The bigger impact may have been in Baghdad.
Many of Iraq’s top politicians once sought refuge from Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-led regime in Iran and since Saddam’s ouster, Tehran has had warmer ties with Baghdad, to the point where many Iraqis accuse it of undue influence.
Many Iraqis note disapprovingly that the Maliki government had a delayed response to the incident and its outcry was muted.
On the other hand, Mr. Maliki has appeared willing to dissociate himself from politicians Iraqis identify with Iran. He has also blasted Iranian ally Syria, blaming it for harbouring militants Iraq holds responsible for major bomb attacks.
“His differences with Syria are in fact a message to Iran,” said Hazim al-Nuaimi, a political science professor at Baghdad’s Mustansiriya University.
As Iraqis increasingly reject outside interference, politicians seen as close to Iran may fare badly in March, leaving Iran a small window to define borders on its own terms.
“Iran knows it has many allies in the current government, and there is no guarantee they will have the same influence in the next one,” Iraqi oil analyst Mahmoud al-Jubouri said.
Refrences:
1- The Globe and Mail
2- Norway post news
3- Iraqi al-zzaman newspaper
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Wake up Wamith… Iraq is already invaded and devastated by the Americans, and all the Iraqi oil is going to the American welfare … The Iraqis are starving on a well of oil !!!!
Dont drag us to the trick again… the thief who is occupying Iraq, plundering its resource, and killing its people is one and sole: the Arerican occupier !!!
Sami
I am waiting for the benighted governments to be crushed, so that the people may pursue their own interests and the new era develop. Their insistence that Baha’i is the problem, and their trespassing human rights, only draws more attention to their spiritually diseased condition.
sami , iraqi is invaded by iran ,America lost the battle along way , just ask your self who give weapons and trained the militia in iraq to kill and displaced 250 thousand Palestinians who lived peacefully in iraq ? wake up man do not buy the propaganda
yes mark ,the green revolution is coming and the same people who revolt against the shah will take the new radical close minded regime down
-i m from Iran…
sorry that the Iranian president have done this. i hope in the future when the green revolution will begin and we will have another president that this never will happen again.
-and i have another comment about the people that are saying the usa are for the oil in iraq personally i don’t think so because if that was the case. then Iraq could (protest) make oil over the 150 dollars by not selling anymore oil to the world and Iraq has the 3th world oil,, and that can make a impact to the whole world especially USA that uses allot of oil
- Iraq needs investors to pump up the economic for poverty or they must sell oil more to the world, that is what i personally think and that will all come when the people are not killing there own people.. hope a better day for Iraq
Shervin:
No sane person blames Iranian people for an incident that their awful government started. They shoot you in the streets – what would stop them from infringement of their neighbor’s territory? Surely not good manners.
Nevertheless, I hope that you shake the chains off your backs and after that, Iran and Iraq will be good neighbors ever after – just like France and Germany are today.
deep-rooted dispute over borders can be (misleadingly) simplified to occupationby either side. that’s a big mistake.
Iraq was part of Persia. It is time we get Iraq and Suria back.
reza for me i can also say let us go back to the iraqi empire on babl and ashor and akad days and we can clam for half of the Mideast ,i respect your options but you must be kidding
Reza…
this is a silly and provocative note that aims at nothing but to incite hatred… the time of perished empires is over, the American “empire” is dying out , how about the ancient kingdom of Persia !!! The Iranian power, though is the second or the third (after Turkey and the zionist entity) in the Middle East, but very limited to provoke all the sunni countries…. and if the Iranian are smart enough (and they are surprisingly smart, but not like your silly notes) they got to cooperate with the Sunni muslims against the Western invader !!!
Plus… you naively claim to take back Syria !! Funny, Syria is the only arab country that stands with Iran…. some fool notes dont deserve to be replied but only to be pointed out as provocative and aiming only to divide and distract the attention away from the sole invader and occupier, the American blind power !!!
Long Live Iran
Sami