What should Great Britain do to Iran for holding their Sailors and Marines?

Question

FIFTEEN British sailors and marines arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying

Answer 1

Obviously their response indicates provocation, given the fact they are being hypocritical when you consider the fact that ragheads try (and in a lot of cases, succeed) to enter our countries illegally everyday. They want to provoke Britain (which theoretically means they are also provoking the U.S and Australia through the existence of alliances)?? - fine. Give them 24 hours to release the men UN-conditionally, and if they refuse...well, it's a good chance for us to prove we flatly refuse to take that kind of ****! An example MUST be made, a stand MUST be taken....I think the rest speaks for itself!!!

Answer 2

i'm afraid your opinion is biased. ask your self in spite of if that's genuinely available to kidnap those army officers in Iraqi Waters it is definitely Guarded with the help of the two the British and the individuals. i'm specific the Iraninans have been waiting for an possibility the place The coalition will stray into thier territory. they % a leverage to good purchase on for various intentions and the British officers on condition that leverage. do no longer even communicate approximately war now reason If each physique is going to start a war with IRAN, i'm specific Britain won't make that mistake;no longer because of fact they won't win, however the value isn't properly worth it.

Answer 3

It happened in 2004. Now again in 2007. At first, there is going to be a war of words. The Iranians are going to say get out of our waters. The English are going to say we weren't in your waters. The USA is going to say no nuclear reactors. Within a month, all will be forgotten, the Iranians will release the English soldiers. And the USA will continue to try to stop Iran's nuclear program.

Answer 4

Ask for them back and created way tougher sanctions if they don't give them back. I hope this doesn't lead to war. It seems as if Iran just wants to go to war.

Answer 5

Do? Do what?

Exactly?

Is war all you people think will solve the problem? I mean, so far, I've seen two questions with people *clawing* for another war in the Middle East--(as if two failed ones weren't enough?)

It just seems to me, that the war mongers and their supporters have no grasp of the consequences for their ambitions and desires. They just want to **** things up badly for future generations.

Answer 6

The British should tell the Iranians that if they don't give back those servicemen immediately, they'll slap the cowboy sh!t out of them........

Answer 7

They should apologize to Iran for invading their territorial waters and accept the punishment for the crimes they committed. Would Britian handle it any different if Iran did it to them?

Answer 8

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.

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."

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
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Answer 9

Don't worry, they will be ok.