Iraq indicates partial withdrawal of Iranian troops from the disputed wells
20 12 2009Yesterday - 10.40 Iranian troops have made a partial withdrawal from an oil well contested by Tehran and Baghdad. He reported on Tuesday a spokesman for the Iraqi government, perhaps cos easing the tension between the two countries over a border dispute. Continue reading this Story Ali al-Dabbagh said that a small group of Iranian soldiers who had taken possession of the oil well in a remote region of the boundary between the two countries last week pi not control the well, that Iraq considered part of its oil fields of FAKK. "The Iranian flag was lowered. Iranian troops have retreated 50 meters, but they are back where they came. The Iraqi government has demanded that the military return where they were before," Dabbagh said. The border dispute has triggered a flurry of emergency meetings and telephone calls bilateral, with Baghdad, which required an immediate withdrawal to limit damage to its important relations with neighboring Iran. Iran and Iraq have a long history of border disputes, including the one that sparked the war of the eighties. - On other news site www.reuters.it Reuters in Italian. The top news also on www.twitter.com / reuters_italia