What is the advantage to Iran to take hostages?

Answer 1

Their president Abminjabwhateverthehellhisnameis is proving what ******* we westerners have become. They laugh at us for being such weak girlypeople.
The British Liberals are trying to achieve a "dialogue" instead of kicking their ******* ASSES!

Answer 2

I don't believe that sort of logical thinking occurred (hopefully, yet). I mean, what was the advantage of taking US hostages back in the Carter days? What was the advantage of China taking US hostages some seven years ago? Israel targeting the Liberty? I just wonder how long it will be until someone calls their bluff and sinks the offending ships or takes Iranian naval hostages for a trade.

Answer 3

What is the advantage to Iran to take hostages?To divert attention from Iran's enrichment of uranium to allow time for development of nuclear weapons. As a further diversion, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad abruptly canceled his planned trip to New York to address the U.N. Security Council. The U.N. voted to expand sanctions on Iran and gave Iran 60 more days to stop enrichment of uranium.

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. Furthermore, the French nuclear carrier Charles de Gaulle and its task force met up with the USS John C. Stennis last Wednesday.

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.

Answer 4

You have to remember that in most cases it is not IRAN... it is usually a few extremists that get together to do something crazy.

However, Hostages are useful. They can clean, cook, do other horrible things that Iranian's just don't want to do, like clean the toilet.

Once they fake execute someone they can do anything they want. Imagine what you could do if everyone thought your were dead... you could finally go after your lifes dream of being a mercenary or a professional hitman. Come on! the possibilities are endless.

Answer 5

Can't you people see. They worship the Devil. It his bidding they shall do. They want war and they will not be happy till we send them all to hell. They are in a constant state of defiance. If we pull out of Iraq they will claim victory for ala. People are in denial and we must finish what we start. Iran must be next and dealt with swiftly. They all must be sent back where they came from. It's well known that you don't inbreed with your family. In their culture they marry their first cousin. Which makes for one sick puppy, or retarded puppy. So why do people expect to deal with them like normal humans.

Answer 6

Did you see what it did to Stock Markets?

It drove the price of oil through the roof. I believe they did to try and destabilize American Economic oil interests. Also, they make more money.

Answer 7

Hostages are always handy =)

Answer 8

they can get the attention from the world.

Answer 9

they've done it in the past and it has done them no harm.