Iran troops have left oil well: Iraq official

Iranian troops who for three days controversially occupied a disputed border oil well left the facility during the night but remain on Iraq’s soil, Iraqi officials said on Sunday.

“The Iranian forces have pulled back 50 metres from the well and have taken their flag but we now demand they return to where they have come from and that negotiations begin on the demarcation of the border,” said Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh.
Earlier, Mayssam Lafta, chief of security and defence of Iraq’s Maysan province where the well is situated, said the Iranian troops had departed from the facility.

“The Iranian troops left overnight and the workers of the oil company returned to the well on Sunday,” he said.

AP