Update — There is a report says that Iraq deployed its troops to the bor­ders — Maliki tries regain what is already lost? –End update

Iran rejected Iraq’s claims of invad­ing an oil well say­ing accord­ing to Algiers Agree­ment, this well belongs to Iran. The inter­est­ing part is the state­ment released by Iraq’s bor­der guards say­ing: We have strict instruc­tions not to respond to any Iran­ian action.

As always in Iraq, dif­fer­ent state­ments made by the Inte­rior Min­istry. The Min­is­ter denied the report, while his deputy con­firmed the report and later a sec­ond deputy denied what the first deputy had said.

News ana­lysts strug­gle to explain what hap­pened, but the best expla­na­tion is on Al-Quds Al-Arabi saying:

This is yet another headache for the Iraqi gov­ern­ment, who already suf­fers from other “disses” such as explo­sions, and the col­lapse of pub­lic service.

This Iran­ian action is a com­bi­na­tion of two goals Iran­ian gov­ern­ment wants to achieve: 1) Weaken Maliki’s gov­ern­ment for the ben­e­fit of his rivals in the Islamic Supreme Coun­cil. 2) With the U.S. and Europe want to embargo Iran, the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment wants to pro­voke U.S. forces to drag them into a lim­ited mil­i­tary con­fronta­tion in the tim­ing does not want leadership.

The part of weaken Maliki is true, and Maliki knows that. Alsumaria revealed that the result of yesterday’s urgent meet­ing of the National Secu­rity coun­cil is that Maliki insisted to resolve the cri­sis through the diplo­matic chan­nels, giv­ing his instruc­tions to the Iraqi ambas­sador in Tehran to nego­ti­ate with the Iran­ian side.