Iranian Oil Wells Still Afire After 19 Months
United Press International
ATHENS —
Three Iranian oil and natural gas wells near the Iran-Iraq cease-fire line, which Iraq set ablaze 19 months ago, are still on fire, and Iraq has refused permission to put out the blaze, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said Tuesday.
Quoting from a report by U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, IRNA said the oil and gas wells are located in the no man’s land between Iran and Iraq near Dehloran, about 325 miles southwest of Tehran.
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