A source in the Iraqi border police said that Iranian military forces, using medium and heavy weapons, have occupied an oil field about 400 kilometers (222 miles) south of the city of Basra.
The border police, accompanied by a unit responsible for protecting Iraqi oil installations, engaged the Iranian invading force and forced it to retreat.
Both sides sustained a number of injuries.
According to police sources, this was the biggest in a series of Iranian incursions into Iraq's oil fields.
Source: Al-Zaman, June 30, 2009
