{"id":2619,"date":"2009-12-19T18:35:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T16:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2009-12-19T18:36:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T16:36:22","slug":"iran-troops-seize-iraq-oil-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/iran-troops-seize-iraq-oil-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran troops seize Iraq oil well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2638\" title=\"Iraq oil well\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Iraq-oil-well-294x160-custom.jpg\" alt=\"Iraq oil well\" width=\"294\" height=\"160\" \/>Iranian troops crossed into Iraqi territory and seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the two countries\u2019 southern border, Iraq\u2019s deputy foreign minister said yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The official, Mohammed Haj Mahmoud, said Iranian troops seized oil well No. 4 Thursday in the Fakkah oil field, in Maysan Province about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad. The oil field is one of Iraq\u2019s largest.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices rose slightly after news of the incident spread.<\/p>\n<p>The incursion by armed Iranians provided a dramatic display of the simmering border tensions between two nations, which have nonetheless grown close in recent years after a Shi\u2019ite-led government rose to power in Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s national security council held an emergency meeting late yesterday. The 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<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 4)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian troops crossed into Iraqi territory and seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the two countries\u2019 southern border, Iraq\u2019s deputy foreign minister said yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,118,37,14],"tags":[3522,3520,3521,3523,3524,3525],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-world","tag-iran-seized-iraq","tag-iranian-troops","tag-iranian-troops-go-to-iraq","tag-iraq-troops","tag-iraz-oil-well","tag-maysan-province"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}