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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 6148897" data-attributes="member: 92282">Iraqi troops massed Saturday near an oil well on the border in a standoff with Iranian forces that seized control of the site in a sudden flare up of tension between the two uneasy neighbors. The top U.S. diplomat in Iraq said Baghdad's speedy response to the border incursion showed that Iraq is "not going to be pushed around" by Iran. The Iraqi troops and border guards were waiting for further orders at a staging ground about a kilometer from oil well No. 4 at the al-Fakkah oil field, said an Interior Ministry official at the site who was not authorized to talk to the media. The Iranian military, meanwhile, denied they had violated Iraq's sovereignty since the oil well was part of Iranian territory according to a 1975 border agreement, in a statement carried by the Arabic language Iranian news station al-Alam. The field is located about 200 miles (about 320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad.<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8864729" target="_blank">AP</a></blockquote>

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