• Iranian Troops and Tanks Confirmed to be Dug in On Iraqi Soill
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[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8420774.stm[/url] [quote]Iranian troops have entered southern Iraqi territory and taken control of an oil well, reports say. An Iraqi official played down the incident, saying the area was abandoned and right on a disputed border section. Iranian soldiers crossed the border and raised an Iranian flag over the Fakkah oil field, a US military spokesman told the AFP news agency. But an Iranian oil company spokesman denied the accusation, saying no troops had taken control of any oil well. "The company denies Iranian soldiers taking control of any oil well inside Iraqi territory," the National Iranian Oil Company spokesman was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Confirmation I[highlight]raq's Deputy Interior Minister confirmed the Iranians stayed in Iraq and were in control of the well.[/highlight] We are awaiting orders from our leader Ahmed Ali al-Khafaji Deputy Interior Minister [highlight]Earlier it was reported that they had withdrawn back across the border. Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ali al-Khafaji initially told the Reuters news agency the reports of the Iranian incursion were not true.[/highlight] [highlight]But Mr Khafaji later confirmed the incursion had taken place, and said [u]11 Iranians had dug-in at the oil well and had not left[/u].[/highlight] "At 3:30 this afternoon, 11 Iranian soldiers infiltrated the Iran-Iraq border and took control of the oil well. They raised the Iranian flag, and they are still there until this moment," he told the Reuters news agency. [highlight] He said there had been no military response from Iraqi forces.. [u]"We are awaiting orders from our leader,[/u]" he said.[/highlight] The incursion is one of several that have occurred in the last few days, he said. The well is about 500m from an Iranian border fort and about 1km from an Iraqi fort, US Colonel Peter Newell told AFP. . [/quote] [quote]"Two weeks ago around 10 to 11 Iranian troops occupied well 4 in al-Fukka oil field after Iraqi oil workers started work in the well near the border," the official who is familiar with the story said. [highlight]The official said Iranian troops opened fire against the workers who fled the worksite immediately. The fire caused no casualties[/highlight], .[/quote] [url]http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091218-713550.html[/url] [quote]"Iran troops 'seize Iraq oil well'" Iranian soldiers crossed the border and raised an Iranian flag over the Fakkah oil field, a US military spokesman told the AFP news agency. "At 3:30 this afternoon, 11 Iranian soldiers infiltrated the Iran-Iraq border and took control of the oil well. They raised the Iranian flag, and they are still there until this moment," he told the Reuters news agency. The well is about 500m from an Iranian border fort and about 1km from an Iraqi fort, US Colonel Peter Newell told AFP.[/quote] [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6840337/Iran-invades-Iraqi-territory-to-seize-oil-field.html[/url] [quote]The Iranian troops were digging in last night almost 24 hours after the incursion was launched. "[highlight]They positioned tanks around it and dug trenches,[/highlight]" General Zafer Nazmi, the head of the Border Police in Basra said. "They are still there, they raised the flag."[/quote] [url]http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=adQrnHAvdqAo&pos=8[/url] [quote]“[highlight]They positioned tanks around it and dug trenches[/highlight],” Nazmi said by phone from Basra. “They are still there, they raised the flag.”[/quote] [url]http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Iraq-Calls-For-Withdrawal-Of-Iranian-Troops-Who-Took-Control-Of-Fakka-Oilfield-Disputed-Border-Area/Articl[/url] e/200912315503937?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15503937_Iraq_Calls_For_Withdrawal_Of_Iranian_Troops_Who_Took_Control_Of_Fakka_Oilfiel d%2C_Disputed_Border_Area [quote]Iraq has not begun military action in response and its forces are waiting for orders, he added.[/quote] [highlight]THREAD MUSIC[/highlight] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n96hCfLEcDE[/media]
Shit's about to go down
I want to see less news reports and more bombs.
[QUOTE=ZaurZawrZore;19051722]I want to see less news reports and more bombs.[/QUOTE] Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran! :v: [B]Edit:[/B] Thread fails... [quote]TEHRAN — Iran on Saturday acknowledged its takeover of an oil well on the Iraqi border but insisted the [U][B]well lies on it's land[/B][/U], playing down the fallout from the first such incident since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gYiU_MRlReyRg2CPjdoSTJlUpcoQ[/url]
Time to blow some shit up. :v:
Yeah lets bomb iran and let's see many American soldiers killed, or maybe even they'll shoot a nuke if they have one! That'll show them! War. war, war!
[B]ITT[/B]: Teenage boys warmonger.
[QUOTE=Split3ndz;19051775]Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran! :v: [B]Edit:[/B] Thread fails... Source: [url]http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gYiU_MRlReyRg2CPjdoSTJlUpcoQ[/url][/QUOTE] So you are going to Take Iran's Word over that of Iraq and the US military? :raise:
[QUOTE=Broseph_;19051907]So you are going to Take Iran's Word over that of Iraq and the US military? :raise:[/QUOTE] US military is known for the unbiased information it provides.
Dayum Iran, you crazy.
[QUOTE=Split3ndz;19051905][B]ITT[/B]: Teenage boys warmonger.[/QUOTE] [b]ITT[/b]: You're an Idiot [url]http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwK_CSpBxsNuVUEaDuOwmSSCiqGwD9CMC1KO3[/url] [quote] BAGHDAD — Iraq is "not going to be pushed around" by Iran, the top U.S. diplomat in Iraq said Saturday following an Iranian takeover of an oil well along the two nations' disputed border. U.S. officials said they agreed with Iraq's speedy defense of its sovereignty amid ongoing concern over Iran's influence on its Mideast neighbor. "It does speak to the overall view here that they are not going to be pushed around by Iran," U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Chris Hill told reporters Saturday. Armed Iranian forces earlier this week crossed into Iraq, seizing an oil well just over the border in southern Iraq's Maysan province. The takeover — which included planting an Iranian flag on the well — was met by protests from Baghdad. It served as a dramatic display of the sometimes tenuous relations between the wary allies. Iraqi authorities on Saturday prevented media representatives from visiting the area at the al-Fakkah oil field, located about 200 miles (about 320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad. Army Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said the Iranian forces were gone from the oil well as of Saturday morning. [highlight][i]But an oil worker at the field said five Iranians remain inside the well, and the Iranian flag still flew above it. The worker, who did not want to be identified for fear of retribution, said Iranian troops were watching the well from a hillside on Iran's side of the border. [/i][/highlight] [highlight]An Iraqi interior ministry official said some Iraqi troops, soldiers and border guards have moved to a staging ground about one kilometer from the seized well, awaiting orders for action. The official, who was at the scene, was not authorized to discuss the situation with the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.[/highlight] Earlier Saturday, the top American military official said the oil well takeover appeared to be the latest example of Iran flexing its influence over Iraq and other Mideast nations. However, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen called it an issue for the Iraqi government to settle, and said there were no plans by the United States to intervene. Once bitter enemies, Iraq and Iran settled into a more positive, if still uneasy, relationship after a Shiite-led government came to power following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. "I continue to worry about the influence of Iran," Mullen, in Iraq for a two-day visit with U.S. and Iraqi authorities, said at a news conference in Baghdad. "There are certainly expectations as a neighbor that there's a relationship, and there are some positive aspects of that. But most of them are pretty negative." Odierno also said Iran continues to fund and train foreign fighters in Iraq, as well as send weapons and equipment over the border — although less frequently now than in the past.[/quote] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Flaming" - TH89))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=Broseph_;19051907]So you are going to Take Iran's Word over that of Iraq and the US military? :raise:[/QUOTE] No I don't take anyones word more than another, it's aparrently long been contested territory. Basically they've been fighting over a block of sand for two thousand years. Kinda remids me of the whole fucking middle east.
[QUOTE=evilking1;19051941]US military is known for the unbiased information it provides.[/QUOTE] What about the Iraqi Interior Ministry and Workers who got fired on and still see Iranian Troops at the Well?
[QUOTE=Split3ndz;19051967]No I don't take anyones word more than another, it's aparrently long been contested territory. Basically they've been fighting over a block of sand for two thousand years. Kinda remids me of the whole fucking middle east.[/QUOTE] A block of sand covering the fuel of our great western engine.
[QUOTE=evilking1;19051941]US military is known for the unbiased information it provides.[/QUOTE] you didnt answer the question, all you did was take a stab at the US again
Well this shoud be interesting, im going to make myself comfortable.
[QUOTE=Split3ndz;19051967]No I don't take anyones word more than another, it's aparrently long been contested territory. Basically they've been fighting over a block of sand for two thousand years. Kinda remids me of the whole fucking middle east.[/QUOTE] But the [B][I]only[/I][/B] disputed part of the Iran-Iraq Border is the Shatt al-Arab which is on the Persian Gulf, the Land Border was agreed on by both sides in the 1975 Algiers Agreement and accepted by the Islamic Republic Of Iran and the Iraqis after the Iran-Iraq War [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_Agreement_%281975%29A[/url]
Shit's about to go down/get real.
[QUOTE=Broseph_;19052064]But the [B][I]only[/I][/B] disputed part of the Iran-Iraq Border is the Shatt al-Arab which is on the Persian Gulf, the Land Border was agreed on by both sides in the 1975 Algiers Agreement and accepted by the Islamic Republic Of Iran and the Iraqis after the Iran-Iraq War [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_Agreement_%281975%29A[/url][/QUOTE] K Mr. encyclopedia. :downs: btw merry christmas.
[QUOTE=Split3ndz;19052095]K Mr. encyclopedia. :downs: btw merry christmas.[/QUOTE] Ok Mr. I'm going to Listen to Iranians despite Sources in Iran saying the Iranian State Media hasn't said a thing about it and the fact that Iranians are still spotted at the Oil Well on Iraqi Land [B]Edit:[/B] Yeah rate me dumb, that will prove you right and make me wrong. :downs:
This is Irans christmas present to Iraq
just nuke them this is getting boring
Is it just me, or does Iran proclaim whatever they are doing is on their land? Wouldn't surprise me if they sent troops to Detroit and said it was their land And I also wouldn't be surprised if we said Psh take that dump hole
[QUOTE=JLea;19052062]you didnt answer the question, all you did was take a stab at the US again[/QUOTE] Thought it was a rhetorical question. But really 11 soldiers could do anything in theory without listening/taking orders from the government. Just like blackwater used to shoot up some civvies, doubt that it was on the par with engagement guidelines. [editline]01:52PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Broseph_;19051986]What about the Iraqi Interior Ministry and Workers who got fired on and still see Iranian Troops at the Well?[/QUOTE] Didn't know the Interior Ministry got fired on.
ITT: Everyone hates Iran because Iraq supports America. ITI: (In this Iraq) Americans.
[QUOTE=Sickle;19052412]ITT: Everyone hates Iran because Iraq supports America.[/QUOTE] More like America is holding Iraq together to keep it from falling into Anarchy.
Similar incidents have happened before along the border, which has never been properly defined since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s - although relations between the two neighbours are now cordial.
Just give it to iran! We don't need it. Make a nice oil deal.
Good. Let the muslims blow themselves up. I hope they all die.
[QUOTE=lulzbocks;19053539]Good. Let the muslims blow themselves up. I hope they all die.[/QUOTE] A Muslim is not the same thing as an Islamist. Please take note. Stop stereotyping. If you really think they are then, this means that all Christians are corny, out of touch, lonely creepers who generally end up becoming murderers or rapists?
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