AMSI made a press statement condemning the ongoing abuses of Iran on Iraqi oil emphasizing this steal of Iraqi oil as crime. 

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) called for the cessation of such encroachment on the rights of the Iraqis and their wealth. 

AMSI also called the United Nations for intervention through the competent committees and monitoring what was stolen from the Iraqi oil.

Press Statement (Number 530) 

In the name of Allah, the Compassionate the Merciful,

Praise be to Allah, peace and blessings be upon the Prophet of Allah, His family and companions. 

In early February of this month, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared on the speech of deputy minister, Mohammed Alhaji Hammoud that the ministry sent a note to the Iranian side, supported memorandums from the Iraqi Oil Ministry, which refers the continuous abuses of Iran on Iraqi oil fields near the border with Iran. 

This note has been enhanced the statements of AMSI about the integrity confirmed by the current availability and control of documents on Iran to 15 oil wells in the area of al Tayyib in the province of Maysan, and the drilling method used in to draw oil from inside Iraq.

 
At a time when Iraqis are waiting current officials to act carefully about this catastrophe, which added to a series of disasters that followed on Iraq and its people it manifested in the form of international organization thefts by the occupation forces and the neighboring countries and others against Iraq and its oil and wealth. These officials appeared publicly for defense Iran, and the dimensions of the charge, and the issued statements are inaccurate and intended to offend the brotherly relations with Iran (!) 

The more serious than this is a number of them gave the impression that taking such jointly fields with Iran must be coordinated with them through joint committees to develop plans for production, in a serious step; to create an appropriate atmosphere to cede sovereignty, land and wealth including ministers who do not have any concern with oil file, but the relevant minister has initiated the lie to these reports, both within his shuttle in Europe or the recent tour in southern Iraq belies the official reports issued by the Ministry of Oil itself in addition to the Foreign Ministry!

It was surprising to claim yesterday that he visited al Abar place and he did not find of of the Iranians there!!

The fields in question, as confirmed by functional studies across the decades on the Iraqi fields 100%, with the exception of one field which is Khane Oil jointly with the Iranian Shah oil field in the province of Diyala, which had stopped production from Iraq on his part since about 3 years, under the pretext of destroying installations. It is the field that feeds the refinery in Baghdad through the pipeline carrier in quantities up to 16 thousand barrels per day, noting that this field is under the control of one of the two Kurdish Parties.

 
The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) condemns this waste of public money; it assumes this is the crime of stealing Iraqi oil in the circumstances through which Iraq is witnessing. It is also a moral crime. Indeed, it must stop this flagrant infringement on the rights of the Iraqis and their wealth. 

AMSI invites the competent committees of the United Nations to intervene in this matter, and monitor what was stolen exactly claim to be compensated later. 

AMSI General Secretariat 
13 Safar 1429 / 20 February 2008

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