who, ultimately, does the blame lie with over the Iranian hostage situation?

Answer 1

Personally I think that there is collective responsibility here!
The US is responsible because of it's imperialism in the Middle-East. The UK is responsible because it supports the US without moral integrity. And Iran itself is responsible because it is playing silly buggers at the moment. This could turn out to be a new mini-Cold War. Though I think that history will record it as a storm in a tea cup.

Answer 2

This is a tough one as we don't really know all the details. If the Brits did stray into Iranian waters then Iran have a legal right to detain them. The real problem here is the way they have been paraded on TV for propaganda purposes. With the current political situation between Iran and the west over it's nuclear programme it would be better for all concerned if the hostages were freed now. Iran are making a stand and trying to antagonise the west into a military action which could lead to another all out war. They know that there are not enough soldiers available at the moment to fight a war in Iran and they see this as being in a position of strength. Iran is probably now next on the Bush/Blair hitlist and we should all be worried. Where will it all end??

Answer 3

For the British to look for blame you can't really blame an uncivilised government like Iran. The leopard can't change its spots. It will always act like any terrorist illiberal state. It did it before with the Jimmy Carter hostage crises.
The blame will be on Britain if it doesn't do a Margaret Thatcher and set a precedence of standing up to illegal acts such that they don't happen again. Blockading an Iranian port would be a good start.

Answer 4

Well, as you ask so specifically, "who, ultimately" then I suppose we must go back to basics.

Lieutenant-Colonel T.E. Lawrence C.B., D.S.O.

a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia

During WW I, Lawrence helped lead an arab army against ( primarily ) Turkish forces, and probably convinced the Arabs that he, and, presumably, the British generally, could be trusted to deal fairly with them.

At the end of the war the Arab Council met in the recently liberated Damascus, and probably wouldn't have achieved anything at all, had Lawrence not fought tooth and nail, not only amongst the Arab delegates, but also with the British High Command.

The fiasco that followed this led to the partition of Arabia and Mesopotamia much along the artificial lines that it is today, Kuwait and Iraq having been divided on purely economic grounds, with an eye to future oil production.

Thus, in true chain reaction terms, led to the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi forces on 2nd August 1990, which engendered the first Gulf war, and in turn led inevitably to the second, in March 2003.

Which led to...............well, we all know what that led to.

So finally, poor old Lawrence, for all that he was a good man, trying his best, probably started the chain of events.

They say that the road to 'hell' is paved with good intentions.

Answer 5

The Iranians

Answer 6

The Iranians

Answer 7

Your question reminds me of a man who beats his wife. She was just asking to be beat that is why he beats her. Be real, the Iranians' took the hostages, and bright one, they are responsible. They are keeping them, so they Iran is at fault.

Answer 8

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1916 Lyrics (Motorhead)



Motorhead - 1916 Lyrics

16 years old when I went to war,
To fight for a land fit for heroes,
God on my side,and a gun in my hand,
Counting my days down to zero,
And I marched and I fought and I bled
And I died & I never did get any older,
But I knew at the time, That a year in the line,
Is a long enough life for a soldier,
We all volunteered,
And we wrote down our names,
And we added two years to our ages,
Eager for life and ahead of the game,
Ready for history's pages,
And we fought and we brawled
And we whored 'til we stood,
Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder,
A thirst for the Hun,
We were food for the gun,and that's
What you are when you're soldiers,
I heard my friend cry,
And he sank to his knees,coughing blood
As he screamed for his mother
And I tell by his, side,
And that's how we died,
Clinging like kids to each other,
And I lay in the mud
And the guts and the blood,
And I wept as his body grew colder,
And I called for my mother
And she never came,
Though it wasn't my fault
And I wasn't to blame,
The day not half over
And ten thousand slain,and now
There's nobody remembers our names
And that's how it is for a soldier.





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Answer 9

Personally, I'd say Tony Blair.

Excuse me if I'm out of line, but the so-called "special relationship" the Blair government formed with the Americans a few years back after 9/11 makes me want to vomit.

I admire Britain as a nation and I admire her people. I just wish the Blair government would have told Bush to go p*ss up a rope a few years back. It seems Blair is more concerned about what the USA thinks about him rather than what his own people think about him. Again, it makes me want to puke.

Britain -- for the past two decades at least -- was a major peacekeeping country. Why not continue this role instead of siding with Bush??

Answer 10

Benny Hill?