Yahoo News is reporting today that Iran has taken over one of the oil wells on the border of Iraq and Iran. There was no violence in the takeover.
The article reports:
"The oil field is in disputed territory in between Iranian and Iraqi border forts," he said, adding that such incidents occur quite frequently.
"An official of the state-owned South Oil Co in the southeastern city of Amara, and west of the field, said: "An Iranian force arrived at the field early this morning (Friday).
"It took control of Well 4 and raised the Iranian flag even though the well lies in Iraqi territory," the official added."
Evidently this sort of incident is not uncommon, due to the fact that some of the land between Iraq and Iran is 'disputed'.
This is not an unusual situation, but simply shows that Iran generally is in the business of poking at it's neighbors whenever possible. Iran is the little brother in the backseat of the car on a family trip that delights in torturing his big sister with the aim of getting her in trouble!
The danger here is the belief by the ruling mullahs of Iran that they need to create chaos to hasten the return of the Mahdi. I believe that is their motivation for poking at Iraq and for developing nuclear weapons which will threaten their part of the world. Since the Iranian mullahs believe the return of the Mahdi is a positive thing, they don't care what kind of chaos they create in hastening his return.
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