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TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Iran complains that Iraq owes it billions of dollars in reparations from the Iran-Iraq war as both sides search for political solutions to an oil-well seizure.
Iranian forces seized an oil well near the border in the southern Iraqi province of Maysan on Friday. The incident raised concerns that Tehran was subverting U.S. influence in Iraq by such brazen measures, though Iraqi and U.S. military officials downplayed the event as commonplace along the disputed border.
As political discussions unfolded, Hossein Ebrahmi, an Iranian lawmaker on Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told the Mehr News Agency that Tehran was still upset over the billions of dollars that Baghdad has yet to pay for "initiating" the Iran-Iraq war.
Iran's Press TV quoted Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ali al-Khafaji, meanwhile, as saying the field was not active and was situated in disputed territory.
"This field is disputed and now it is neglected by both sides," he said. "There was no storming of the field, it's empty, it's abandoned, it is exactly on the border between Iraq and Iran."
Both sides have agreed to set up a special committee to resolve the issue.
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