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NUCLEAR IRAN INVADES IRAQ, TAKES OVER OIL FIELD

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NUCLEAR IRAN INVADES IRAQ, TAKES OVER OIL FIELD
"THE TIME FOR TALK IS OVER" SAID OBAMA OVER GLOBAL WARMING, NO SANCTIONS ON IRAN

While America is accused of imperialism because she spends blood and treasure to free Muslims, the axis of evil continues its brutal Islamic expansionism.

Why ?......... Because they can........... and nobody will stop them, especially our Dictator In Training Pants. (hat tip Ken)

Obama talked tough at Copenhagen on global warming but was silent on the greatest threat to the world since Hitler.

Iran Forces Occupy Iraq Oil Well Bloomberg

Iranian forces yesterday entered Iraqi territory at dawn and occupied well number 4 in the East Maysan oil field, Border Guard General Zafer Nazmi said.

The Iranian forces positioned tanks around the well, which is in the al-Fakah region, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Baghdad. The two neighbors have disputed the border of southeast Iraq for decades.

“They positioned tanks around it and dug trenches,” General Nazmi said by phone from Basra. “They are still there, they raised the flag.”

And meanwhile Obama and his marxist Congress ram enslaving Obama care legislation through that no one wants except the destroyers before Christmas, holding the vote on Christmas eve, but does nothing about sanctions on Iran.

"The time for talk is over" - so said Obama today at the biggest science and political hoax in human history. Was he talking about the nuclear triggered Iran? NO. He was talking about the global redistribution of wealth.

Obama Slowing Sanctions Legislation Push - Ron Kampeas

Unilateral U.S. sanctions against Iran are on track, Senate officials say, but taking the slow train. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, needs time to consider the bill, his spokesman, Frederick Jones, told JTA. That means it's extremely unlikely the Senate will rush the legislation before year's end. The go-slow approach takes some wind out of the version of the bill, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, that passed Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Obama administration wants to slow down the prospect of unilateral sanctions while it attempts to mass international support for multilateral measures aimed at forcing Iran to make its nuclear workings transparent. Top administration officials have made clear in recent days that they are apprehensive of scaring away potential partners in multilateral sanctions with the threat of punitive sanctions. One official of a pro-Israel group pushing hard for the legislation cautioned that the bottom line of the White House backing sanctions, now or in the near future, was good news. That Obama wanted tweaks to the legislation was to be expected, the official said. (JTA)

UPDATE: John A. adds,

"We spend trillions to bring democracy to Iraq and Iran steps in and takes the oil. A swift, measured and decisive action would be appropriate. One that stings the Iranians so bad they wouldn't think of doing this again. "
 
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Iraq's Government Orders Iranian Troops to Withdraw From Iraqi Oilfield
Friday, December 18, 2009
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Iraq's government has ordered Iranian troops to withdraw from the oilfield which they have taken control of in southern Iraq, Reuters reported.

"Iraq demands the immediate withdrawal from well No. 4 and the Fakka oilfield, which belongs to Iraq. Iraq is looking for a peaceful and diplomatic settlement to this issue," said government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, according to Reuters.

Iranian troops crossed into Iraqi territory Thursday and seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the two countries' southern border, Iraq's deputy foreign minister said Friday.

Iran denied these claims, Reuters reported.

The Iraqi official, Mohammed Haj Mahmoud, said Iranian troops seized oil well No. 4 Thursday night in the al-Fakkah oil field, located about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad. The oil field is one of Iraq's largest.

The deputy foreign minister said he did not know whether the Iranians were still in control of the oil well.

In Washington, a U.S. official said that although Iranians had crossed the border before, they had not previously ventured this far.


Iraqi security forces were in the area, but there are no reports of any fighting or that any shots were fired, he said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.

No U.S. troops were in the area. And the Iranians are believed to have left the area, he said.
A message left for Iran's Foreign Ministryspokesman seeking comment was not returned Friday evening.

According to Iraq's state-run Iraqiya television, the National Security Council, headed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, was meeting Friday night to discuss the issue.

Such incidents have happened before along the Iran-Iraq border, which was never clearly delineated after the brutal war between the two countries in the 1980s.

An energy expert in Washington with knowledge of the situation told Fox News that the field that Iran reportedly moved into is part of the Maysan group of fields, slivers of which have been disputed for a long time, some as far back as the Iran-Iraq war. The expert did not think this incident would blow up into something more serious in the short term.

Meanwhile, oil prices in the region rose slightly after news of the incident.

"We are coordinating with the Oil Ministry regarding this issue. This is not the first time that the Iranians have tried to prevent Iraqis from investing in oil fields in border areas. Tomorrow, we might summon the Iranian ambassador to discuss this issue," Mahmoud told The Associated Press.

The al-Fakkah field is considered a shared field between Iran and Iraq, meaning both nations are able to pump oil from it, but the Iraqis consider oil well No. 4 theirs.

Last year, the Iraqi Oil Ministry accused Iran of stealing oil from the al-Fakkah field and of illegally seizing and capping off wells in a second field that Iraq claims lies entirely within its territory.

Iraq has an estimated 115 billion barrels of proven oil reserves — the world's third largest, behind only Saudi Arabia and Iran.

But years of neglect, war and insurgency have left the oil fields performing far below what they're capable of. Iraq has been trying to attract international investment to develop its oil industry, including a round of international bidding last week that produced seven deals on the 15 fields offered. The al-Fakkah field was not one of those fields.

Fox News' Amy Kellogg and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
 

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ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis

"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama

The world is looking

Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. "And he's gonna need help".

"I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here," he joked.

will so far.. Obama has failed every test...

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