Posted on 07/06/2022 5:01:43 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Iran has arrested the British Deputy Ambassador and a number of other foreign nationals on charges of espionage, Iranian media reported Wednesday.
Deputy Ambassador Giles Whitaker, who heads the British diplomatic mission in Iran, was taken into custody by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Iranian government released footage it claimed showed Whitaker near the site of Iranian missile tests. He is also accused of taking soil...
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They smell weakness in the West. With Boris on the ropes and an idiot at the White House.
Diplomats can be expelled, but never arrested.
Would this not be an act of war?
Provocative. Is it the Iranian election season?
WW3 - it’s like watching a train wreck in slo-mo.
Somebody - anybody stop it.
Crickets.
It could be more Kabuki theater, with the UK’s Deep State in on it with the mullahs.
More details, purportedly, here....
Diplomats can be expelled, but never arrested.
The UK is saying the story is bunk.
Better call NATO
Amen
Ezekiel 38 coming with this one
Which could be called what you said
“The Iranians have a track record when it comes to “diplomatic immunity”. Have we ever gotten our embassy back?”
Iran was nice enough to have given us many Iranian made, and Russian made, anti-armor mines, anti-personnel mines, and rockets returned from Iran to us in Iraq and Syria.
“The Iranians have a track record when it comes to “diplomatic immunity”. Have we ever gotten our embassy back?”
Iran was nice enough to have given us many Iranian made, (and Russian made), anti-armor mines, anti-personnel mines, and rockets “returned” from Iran to us in Iraq and Syria.
......lol, “diplomacy” ain’t gonna work in this case. The Brit’s will need LEVERAGE and lots of it, e.g a fully loaded mega tanker with Iranian owned oil in it.
Britain’s SBS could pick off one for them no problem.
Absolutely. This is what they call in the ghetto, “trying you out”. Doing it on behalf of Russia and China, both of whom are eager to sense weakness for their respective projects of conquest. Time to show them what a navy’s for. Rule Britannia.
That’s the idea. Iran just broke diplomatic protocol and law. Now what is the UK, the US, NATO and the UN going to do about it?
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