Comments on: Iraq Charges Iran with Occupying Maysan Oil Well http://www.juancole.com/2009/12/al-sharq-al-awsat-middle-east-reports.html Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:17:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.juancole.com/2009/12/al-sharq-al-awsat-middle-east-reports.html#comment-1218 Anonymous Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:23:24 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=4846#comment-1218 America can seize Iraqi oil wells, but Iran cannot ??? hmmmmmm America can seize Iraqi oil wells, but Iran cannot ??? hmmmmmm

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.juancole.com/2009/12/al-sharq-al-awsat-middle-east-reports.html#comment-1208 Anonymous Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:41:10 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=4846#comment-1208 There have been border disputes between Iraq and Iran since Sumerian times. It's really a bit disingenuous to blame Iraq for everything just because that is the politically correct line to take. After all, Khomeini was trying to stir up an Islamic revolution in secular Iraq and then there was the border dispute over the Shatt al Arab too. There have been border disputes between Iraq and Iran since Sumerian times. It's really a bit disingenuous to blame Iraq for everything just because that is the politically correct line to take. After all, Khomeini was trying to stir up an Islamic revolution in secular Iraq and then there was the border dispute over the Shatt al Arab too.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.juancole.com/2009/12/al-sharq-al-awsat-middle-east-reports.html#comment-1206 Anonymous Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:39:17 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=4846#comment-1206 http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/12/iraq-puppet-government.html<br /><br />December 18, 2009<br /><br />Iraq puppet government<br /><br />A pro-Saudi puppet Iraqi politician appeared on Al-Arabiyyah TV (station of King Fahd's brother-in-law, increasingly under the influence of Prince `Azzuz, who presumably was cured from his stalking obsession with Yasmeen Bleeth) to protest Iranian occupation of Iraq--kid you not. He said that this comes at a time when US troops are leaving Iraq. But even when they were "there", they were not "occupying" of course. They were merely roaming.<br /><br />-- As'ad AbuKhalil link to angryarab.blogspot.com
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December 18, 2009

Iraq puppet government

A pro-Saudi puppet Iraqi politician appeared on Al-Arabiyyah TV (station of King Fahd's brother-in-law, increasingly under the influence of Prince `Azzuz, who presumably was cured from his stalking obsession with Yasmeen Bleeth) to protest Iranian occupation of Iraq–kid you not. He said that this comes at a time when US troops are leaving Iraq. But even when they were "there", they were not "occupying" of course. They were merely roaming.

– As'ad AbuKhalil

]]> By: mark delmege http://www.juancole.com/2009/12/al-sharq-al-awsat-middle-east-reports.html#comment-1201 mark delmege Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:01:11 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=4846#comment-1201 Of course my comment is based on the assumption that it was Iranian forces. It could even prove to be another false flag job... Of course my comment is based on the assumption that it was Iranian forces. It could even prove to be another false flag job…

]]> By: markdelmege http://www.juancole.com/2009/12/al-sharq-al-awsat-middle-east-reports.html#comment-1200 markdelmege Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:56:07 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=4846#comment-1200 I don't claim to have any specialised knowledge on this topic - but from different sources I understand that the well is not producing. Also during the Shar's time he moved the borders and this was part of the reasons for the Iran Iraq war - not that that was the start of border tensions just a more recent episode in a long running 'battle' for strategic control for land and islands in that corner of the world.<br />Both sides I am sure could make 'valid' claims. Lets hope they sort it out peaceably. I don't claim to have any specialised knowledge on this topic – but from different sources I understand that the well is not producing. Also during the Shar's time he moved the borders and this was part of the reasons for the Iran Iraq war – not that that was the start of border tensions just a more recent episode in a long running 'battle' for strategic control for land and islands in that corner of the world.
Both sides I am sure could make 'valid' claims. Lets hope they sort it out peaceably.

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