How bad of a beating will Iran take if they do not release those British navel personnel?

Answer 1

Well-don't get me started!

We can send them our most destructive force yet- a weapon so fearsome the Soviets and the Americans shirked from its endorsement.
A weapon so fearsome it's guaranteed to destroy their nation and their economy for years to come.

This superweapon of vilest evil is called: Tony Blair.

Seriously- we all hope they'll be fine and well treated. I hope it can be solved diplomatically. But if not- things look very bleak for everyone. Iran is well armed and has good morale.
IF it escalates- there may be a rescue squad sent in, precision air strikes to rattle them- but I would like to think all players are avoiding any development of a wide-scale conflict.

If past behaviour proves anything- they'll probably marched out on Iranian TV, say they were naughty and sent on their way.
We live in hope and prayer for our fine service personnel.

Answer 2

No, neoconammo. the U. S. already does see them as evil and undesirable, regrettably. What something of the worldwide thinks has in no way been significant to the administration. Iran desires to electrify the U. S. into extra protection tension pastime interior the middle East so their government can hearth up much extra anti-American feeling between the Persians, Arabs and Asians. President Ahmedinejad is having a tantrum regarding the UN sanctions and is terrified that our Congress will certainly decrease off funds for the conflict in Iraq. He might like no longer something extra suitable than for us to get slowed down there.

Answer 3

Beatings may be observed also as positive from the beatee's perspective; however in this so-called modern age where happiness, squared intelligence, satisfaction, bubble whispily into fruition rather than meted evenly as a heavenly cornucopia- expect only our loving\lovely planet of the apes to prevail with superficial scathing.
One may say 'don't get caught with your pants down' as it is difficult to run....but how you might apply such a saying in lieu of gas, radiation,and psychic field generation my apologies for lack of moments presently.
Please, stay in vogue. Try to demonstrate a enamoured fluidity for the better parts of WW3! It's the u.s.'er way!

Answer 4

The better question is whether or not Bush will be able to back up the British as strongly as they did us at the beginning of the war.

President Ahmadinejad isn't stupid, but he's surely making decisions that aren't real bright. :-S

Answer 5

In the next few days you will see that they have been relesed , IRAN will release them vrey quicklly because they don't want to make matters worse.

Answer 6

What are the British going to do about it? Nothing.

Answer 7

Are you ready to go over there now? It doesn't matter what country is in peril, we always seem to stick our nose where it doesn't belong...too late. This country, as usual, will justify its reason for the next battle

Answer 8

we should then the sas to go and get them i dont think we can cope with another war

Answer 9

Iran is in a heap of trouble.....

Iran is dealing with two issues. First, Iran has captured 15 British sailors. Second, Iran has refused to cooperate with the U.N. regarding cessation of uranium enrichment.

Military confrontation may be on the horizon.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=3961
In addition to the British naval vessels at the Diego Garcia atoll in the Indian ocean, there is a multi-national force in the Persian Gulf. The British HMS Cornwall aircraft carrier strike group, the American aircraft carrier strike group Bremerton-based aircraft carrier CVN-74 John C. Stennis, the American aircraft carrier strike group USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the French nuclear carrier Charles de Gaulle and its task force are all in close appoximation in the Persian Gulf. The USS Nimitz may also be in the Persian Gulf as it was scheduled for its WESTPAC07 deployment to replace the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-68.htm

More details about military options can be found here:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iran-strikes.htm

Iran has elicited "confessions" from the 15 British sailors they captured and may put them on trial for espionage. The penalty for espionage in Iran is death.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1563877.ece
“If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage. If that is proven, they can expect a very serious penalty since according to Iranian law, espionage is one of the most serious offences.” Espionage carries a death sentence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6493391.stm
Iran's detention of 15 Royal Navy personnel is "unjustified and wrong", Prime Minister Tony Blair has said. UK officials are waiting to be granted access to the HMS Cornwall staff, who were seized on Friday, and have not been told where the group are held.

"It simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this is for us," Mr Blair said.

"We have certainly sent the message back to them very clearly indeed. They should not be under any doubt at all about how seriously we regard this act, which is unjustified and wrong."

On March 23, 2007, 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.

Regarding enrichment of uranium, Iranian President Mahmaoud Ahmadinejad abruptly cancelled his appearance before the U.N. security council and in his stead, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Iran spoke. He indicated that Iran was willing to continue negotiations but without the precondition that uranium enrichment must be halted.

Mottaki said, "the world has two options to proceed on the nuclear issue: continued negotiations or confrontation. Choosing the path of confrontation ... will have its own consequences. "
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070325/D8O3E7J00.html

The U.N. security council unanimously voted to expand sanctions on March 24, 2007.

The new resolution 1747 calls on Iran to comply fully with all previous UN resolutions and join negotiations to reach agreement so as to restore international confidence in the peaceful nature of its nuclear program. Full transparency and cooperation with the IAEA are required. Suspension of Iran’s banned nuclear activities will elicit the parallel suspension of sanctions. The package of incentives offered Tehran last year for its cooperation remains on the table.

The full text of the draft of resolution 1747 appears at this website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6455853.stm

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.