{"id":88419,"date":"2009-12-18T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/iranian-guards-cross-over-border-and-seize-iraqi-oil-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-18T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T13:54:00","slug":"iranian-forces-cross-border-and-seize-iraqi-oil-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/88419","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Forces Cross Border And Seize Iraqi Oil Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b2b8e750000000000bde1c0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"iraq iran kuwait map\" \/>Here&#8217;s a shock:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=asA7YDOTXZDQ&amp;pos=8\">Bloomberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Iranian forces yesterday entered Iraqi territory at dawn, and occupied well number 4 in the East Maysan field in al-Fakah region, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Baghdad, Border Guard General Zaser Nazmi said. The Iranian forces positioned tanks around the well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The border guard&rsquo;s comments couldn&rsquo;t be immediately verified independently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&ldquo;They positioned tanks around it and dug trenches,&rdquo; Nazmi said by phone from Basra. &ldquo;They are still there, they raised the flag.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Other outlets are reporting the story as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5iRkt1TGLJlxHgaN0gSIAfk-aYBew\">AFP<\/a> cites a US military spokesman who says the incident was non-violent and that there was hope for a diplomatic solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Oil has spiked to $74.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/iranian-guards-cross-over-border-and-seize-iraqi-oil-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-second-iraq-oil-auction-of-2009-2009-12\">The Iraqi Oil Auction Was Like A High-Stakes American Idol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-wont-stop-iran-from-getting-nukes-harvard-simulation-shows-2009-12\">Obama Won&#8217;t Stop Iran From Getting Nukes, Harvard Simulation Shows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/five-british-yachters-nabbed-by-iran-2009-11\">Iran Seizes British Yacht, Oil Soars<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/SlhycEfCrU0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a shock: Bloomberg: Iranian forces yesterday entered Iraqi territory at dawn, and occupied well number 4 in the East Maysan field in al-Fakah region, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Baghdad, Border Guard General Zaser Nazmi said. The Iranian forces positioned tanks around the well. The border guard&rsquo;s comments couldn&rsquo;t be immediately verified independently. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}