Seems like they get along, except when they don't get along. I have trouble keeping track.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/219/world/Iranian_team_works_on_containi:.shtml

Iranian team works on containing oil slick from sunken Iraqi ship

By Associated Press, 8/7/2001 20:13

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) An Iranian team began work on containing an oil slick from a ship that sank while smuggling Iraqi oil in the Persian Gulf, a Bahraini maritime official said Tuesday.

The slick of oil that leaked from the merchant vessel Georgios was 3 miles long and about half a mile wide, said Capt. Abdel-Munem al-Janahi, director of the Bahrain-based Marine Emergency Mutual Aid Center. He said the sunken ship was still leaking oil.

Members of a U.S.-led naval force boarded the Honduran-flagged vessel as it was sinking Sunday and rescued the 12-member Iraqi crew. The ship was carrying 2,083 tons of ''illegal Iraqi oil,'' a spokeswoman for the force said on Monday.

U.N. sanctions imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait prohibit Iraq from exporting oil without U.N. authorization. This year, the U.S-led Maritime Interception Force has questioned 1,472 ships, boarded 748 and diverted 62 vessels in its work to enforce the sanctions.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001