19.12.2009, 14:49
Zitat:Iran acknowledges oil well takeover on Iraq borderhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091219/ts_...1219111614
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran on Saturday acknowledged its takeover of a disputed oil well in a border region with Iraq but insisted the well lies inside Iranian territory, trying to play down any diplomatic fallout.
"Our forces are on our own soil and, based on the known international borders, this well belongs to Iran," the Iranian armed forces command said in a statement, quoted by the 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."
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