Iranian troops withdrew from the disputed oil well area on the border between Iraq and Iran, Iraqi official television reported Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
  
"The Iranian troops have withdrew from the al-Fakkah-4 oil well to its original positions before their first border cross," the state-run channel of Iraqia quoted the government spokesman Ali al- Dabbagh as saying.
  
On Dec. 18, Iranian troops crossed into Iraq and seized the oil well No. 4 from the Fakkah oil field in Maysan province in southern Iraq, but later the troops pulled out and stationed near the oil well inside the Iraqi land not to their original positions across the border.
  
The Iranian move raised tension between the two countries and Iraqis in several cities have held demonstrations demanding their government take action.
  
On Jan. 7, Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki visited Iraq and the two countries agreed to activate joint border committee about the demarcation of land borders between the two countries as well as maritime borders.
  
The al-Fakkah oilfield was first drilled by Iraqis in 1979 as part of the Iraqi territories, before the Iraqi-Iranian eight- years war in 1980.
  
However, the oilfield is located some 200 to 300 meters away from the border line, therefore, Iran believes it has the right to pump from it, but the Iraqis consider the oil field theirs.