Posted on 03/28/2007 4:23:24 PM PDT by UKrepublican
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Iran's foreign minister says Britain must admit that its 15 sailors and marines entered Iranian waters for the standoff to be resolved.
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Yes they do. I guess our leaders really need to understand 'the why' about it before they engage full force against them.
The Iranian leader may well be a genuine nut-ball, in which case someone else is pulling his strings. IMO that is what we need to expose.
I like to think this would work, but I suspect that the Iranians have spent enough time in the Baazar to be tricked like they were simpletons. Glad it made you laugh.
If the Iranians use a nuke there will no longer be any doubt about their possession of nuclear weapons. That will green light total annihilation. The free world could not sit back while Iran then developed Midrange and Long Range ICBM capabilities. Testing a nuke and using a nuke are two entirely different issues. In the modern world you can negotiate and make treaties with nuke testers. You cannot however negotiate and make treaties with nuke users. Especially if they have violated almost every agreement they have ever entered.
where is the Great Briton i used to know.
Russia reportedly exits Iran nuke site
By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer
VIENNA, Austria - Russia is pulling out its experts from the Iranian nuclear reactor site they were helping build, U.S. and European officials said Tuesday. The move reflected a growing rift between Iran and Russia that could lead to harsher U.N. sanctions on the Islamic republic for its refusal to stop uranium enrichment.
The representatives — a European diplomat and a U.S. official — said a large number of Russian technicians, engineers and other specialists have returned to Moscow in the past week, at about the same time senior Russian and Iranian officials tried unsuccessfully to resolve financial differences over the Bushehr nuclear reactor. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because their information was confidential.
“A good number of them have left recently,” said the U.S. official, of the approximately 2,000 Russian workers on site of the nearly completed reactor outside the southern city of Bushehr. The European diplomat, who is accredited to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, said a large number had left as recently as last week.
Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for Rosatom, Russia’s Federal Nuclear Power Agency, confirmed that the number of Russian workers at the Bushehr plant had dwindled because of what he said were Iranian payment delays. He would not say how many had left.
The Russian departures are formally linked to a financial dispute with Iran but have a strong political component, linked to international efforts to persuade the Islamic republic to freeze activities linked to uranium enrichment, which can produce both nuclear fuel and the fissile material for nuclear warheads.
Although the reactor is 95 percent completed, Russia announced this month that further work would be delayed because Iran had failed to make monthly payments since January. It said the delay could cause “irreversible” damage to the project.
Because of the delay, Russia also indefinitely postponed delivery of enriched uranium fuel it had promised to provide Iran by this month.
Iran, which denies falling behind in payments, was furious, convinced Russia — which has long blunted a U.S.-led push for the U.N. Security Council sanctions — was now using the claim of financial arrears as a pretext to increase pressure for it to heed the council
---Seems Iran is having money trouble. (maybe it's the 80 billion Imadinnerjar loaned Hogo Chavez)
I think this is a ploy to create a panic to raise oil prices (even more)
"The smoking was to make her appear inferior."
For me it looks more inferior to hide behind a woman.
I'm impressed by the pluck of this gal. She had guts to shoulder a rifle and stand ready on a speed boat in those waters.
Sat pictures are meaningless - they do not show the borders. Google Earth only show the border to the end of the river, beyond that it is in dispute.
The British map for dummies is worthless as the line drawn on it does not exist on any official map - otherwise they would have shown it.
That area is in dispute and therefore no one can say whether it is Iranian or Iraqi waters.
Strangely, the boat thet boarded had been anchored there for three weeks before the boarding and is still anchored there.
Also the first Iraqi comment issued by the head of the coastal area in Basra said that the fishermen had told them that the British were operating in Iranian waters. Fishermen who are out there every day know the area.
Finally, they could not even get the UN to go along with the fiction of being in Iraqi waters, which could easily be proved if they had a internationally recognised border in that area -- they do not, so that was struck from the complaint.
Stay away from disputed waters.
"If the Iranians use a nuke there will no longer be any doubt about their possession of nuclear weapons. That will green light total annihilation. The free world could not sit back while Iran then developed Midrange and Long Range ICBM capabilities. Testing a nuke and using a nuke are two entirely different issues. In the modern world you can negotiate and make treaties with nuke testers. You cannot however negotiate and make treaties with nuke users. Especially if they have violated almost every agreement they have ever entered."
You have a good point, but I still disagree. If Iran attacks us first with a nuke military of civilian agreed would be green light for total annihalation on them. However, if we initiate an attack and they nuke a carrier I still maintain we will not use a nuke back. We may certainly go in with a conventional attack after we are fairly sure we have destroyed any other nuclear stockpile.
I think the Ruskies are pulling out because they can smell what's in the wind.
Would they like fries with that?
Issue above apology.
Recover personnel.
Convert Ahmadinijad into a small, wafting whisp of carbonized atmosphere.
Issue following apology:
Due to a navigational error by an unmanned electronic guidance system on board one of Her Majesty's millitary munitions delivery vehicles, that missile made an inadvertent course correction that diverted it into Iranian airspace. Failsafe systems were engaged, but action could not be taken in time to prevent impact and the resulting detonation of the transported munitions.
The queen apologizes for this to the people of Iran.
Maybe after this twang is snuffed out by a smart bomb, his successor will soften his stance. Particularly if the successor is appointed by a human, instead of the mullahcracy.
There shouldn't be, nor should there be an apology, in my opinion.
One of the responses available to Britain under the International LAw principle of resiprocity, wouyld be to capture its own set of Iranian Hostages. That is why Iamanutjob cancelled his trip to the UN when this incident happened. He knew he would become a guest of Her Majesty's Government.
There is a whole UN Iranian set of personnel who are involved in subterfuge against the West, who live and work in New York. Britain could easily nab 15 of them while US Security looked the other way.
Then Britain could do the same. That is an old Islamofascist Game from Persia and Arabia. Its been going on for thousands of years. Britain needs to play it, but the Liberal Socialists of the Blair government will never authorize it.
THe Queen of England might authorize it though. That would be interesting.
England is, in my estimation, in dire risk of falling to islam within a generation, if not sooner. To prevent this will take large-scale deportations, with attendant civil unrest heretofore unseen by the Brits on their soil. It is necessary, nasty business but essential. We in the USA face the same, a bit longer off.
Islam is the enemy of all free people - it is not a religion, it is a bigoted cult of domination very comparable to Naziism. It is a clear and present danger to the world. We are looking at a resurgence of the Crusades, and unless we admit that we are done.
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