The Iranian military has crossed over the Iraqi border, seized an Iraqi oil well, and hoisted the Iranian flag above it. When I say Iraq, I’m of course talking about that country in the Middle East formerly ruled by Saddam Hussein and currently home to more than 100,000 U.S. troops.
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.
An official of the state-owned South Oil Co in the southeastern city of Amara, and west of the field, said: "An Iranian force arrived at the field early this morning (Friday).
"It took control of Well 4 and raised the Iranian flag even though the well lies in Iraqi territory," the official added.
"An oil ministry delegation is to travel to the area on Saturday to assess the situation."
The article goes to quote an official from the U.S. military who says this is normal and happens all the time, nothing to see here.
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."
It’s understandable that The Pentagon would downplay this and pretend it’s no big deal, but I don’t buy it.
Oil is the most precious resource in Iraq. It’s the lifeblood of their economy. I find it difficult to believe that the sovereign nation of Iraq protected by U.S. forces allowed Iran to walk across the border and seize an oil well. But, it looks like that’s exactly what happened. How can that be? Did the Obama administration order our forces to stand down and allow the seizure to take place?
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