2007-03-23 14:19:18 · 14 answers · asked by Mother 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Not sure I'd go that far yet, but I sure hope that they are not as wimpy as President Carter was back in the Iran Hostage Crisis. That was one factor, I believe, that started the emboldening the terrorist mentality that we are still struggling with today.
2007-03-23 14:23:32 · answer #1 · answered by Apachecat 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Casus belli. It might come to that. However, the British will likely wait to see what Iran's next move will be.
It is a diversion from enrichment of uranium to buy more time for Iran's development of a nuclear weapon. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad abruptly canceled his planned trip to New York to address the U.N. Security Council.
A strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis recently joined a similar force in the Persian Gulf led by the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
U.S. and British officials said a boarding party from the frigate HMS Cornwall was seized about during a routine inspection of a merchant ship inside Iraqi territorial waters near the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway.
The seizure of two Royal Navy inflatable boats took place just outside the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, a 125-mile channel dividing Iraq from Iran. Its name means Arab Coastline in Arabic, and Iranians call it Arvandrud - Persian for Arvand River. A 1975 treaty recognized the middle of the waterway as the border.
Iranians send arms to Iraqi extremists, including sophisticated roadside bombs. This week, two commanders of an Iraqi Shiite militia told The Associated Press in Baghdad that hundreds of Iraqi Shiites had crossed into Iran for training by the elite Quds force, a branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard thought to have trained Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
2007-03-24 04:13:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They should be polite. That's why they call it politics. It may be an attempt to open a dialogue with the White House clown. At any rate, Iran knows the power of Britain. And we always have Britain's back, so I expect the Brits to be released unharmed within 48 hrs. If they're not released in 72 hrs., BOMB THEM TO HELL!
2007-03-23 14:31:59 · answer #3 · answered by CaesarsGhost 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Brits don't have the stomach for that type of thing right now. Pity, though...Iran would look lovely under it's own shock and awe.
2007-03-23 14:24:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, if anybody bombs Iran right now, that's just gonna make them even more pissed and another war which everybody is trying to avoid will break out.
2007-03-23 14:24:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kidnaping??!!!!
where didu get this from?!
They where detained cause they entered Iranian water as the Iranians said.
Theirs 1000 of uk& us ships sailing in this area everyday,why would the Iranians arrest those 15 troops if they didnt violate the Iranian water??!!!
its not Logic
2007-03-23 14:57:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Krasus hit the nail on the head. However i would highly suggest that Iran let them go.
2007-03-23 18:13:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely, they should! Their sailors were taken in the territorial waters of a third nation. There's a word for that: piracy. Even this old Fenian would support Britain in THAT war!
2007-03-23 14:29:36 · answer #8 · answered by Rick N 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
give them a time period to release the troops if they are not released by that time blow iran off the face of the earth bomb their nuke plants
2007-03-23 14:24:16 · answer #9 · answered by bullwinkle 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When people ask me: "Why are Americans these days so stupid?"
I look at questions like these and think: "Because we are the most undereducated, ill-informed people on the face of this planet."
2007-03-23 17:55:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋