Iran: Britain must admit navy trespassed

Published by Foehammer 2 years, 11 months ago in News, Eurabia and Iran. Tags: associated press, britons, Eurabia, global ambitions, iran, iranian authorities, islamic world, News, riyadh saudi arabia, tehran iran.

And why must Britain admit to a lie? Because it will not only save face for Iran, it will make Iranian leadership look even more powerful to the Islamic world.

Not only should Britain refuse to give in to such insane demands if the truth is on their side, the very moment these people are safely back into Allied protection, the countdown to the long, long overdue trouncing of Iranian nuclear, regional and global ambitions should begin in earnest.

AP report:

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s foreign minister said Wednesday that Britain must admit that its 15 sailors and marines entered Iranian waters in order to resolve a standoff over their capture by Iranian authorities.

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki’s announcement came on a day of escalating tensions, highlighted by an Iranian video of the detained Britons that showed the only woman captive saying her group had “trespassed” in Iranian waters. Britain angrily denounced the video as unacceptable and froze most dealings with the mideast nation.

“First they have to admit that they have made a mistake. Admitting the mistake will facilitate a solution to the problem,” Mottaki told The Associated Press in an interview in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “But unfortunately the British have not admitted their mistake.”

Mottaki also backed off a prediction that the female sailor, Faye Turney, could be freed Wednesday or Thursday, but said Tehran agreed to allow British officials to meet with service personnel.

His comments were the first confirmation that Iran agreed to a British request for a consular visit with the crew, though he did not specify when. Iran has not said where the 15 are being held.

“We have accepted that (the British request), there is no problem. Measures are underway (to arrange meeting.) They can meet them,” he said.

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1 ISLAMSFORLOSERS |

Mar 28th, 2007 at 9:07 pm

I hope Britain isn’t stupid enough to cave in. If it does, there will be even more trouble.
2 tosser |

Mar 29th, 2007 at 6:54 pm

What makes you so certain it’s a lie, Foehammer?
3 Foehammer |

Mar 29th, 2007 at 7:28 pm

[quote post=”542″]What makes you so certain it�s a lie, Foehammer?[/quote]

Besides the fact that we’re dealing with an Islamic regime that’s taught to lie from Islamic law (i.e. taqiyya and kitman), and besides the fact that this same regime has kidnapped over 1,000 people since 1979, and besides the fact that they’ve killed far more, I think the best evidence that they are lying is that the first set of coordinates they sent to Britain as “proof” that the seamen were taken in Iranian waters actually turned out to be in Iraqi. They basically pulled an “oops” and quickly sent new “correct” coordinates.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard is so clumsy it’s comical sometimes.

Britain’s military said Iran’s own coordinates bolster the assertion that a captured Royal Navy crew was in Iraq’s territorial waters when it was taken.

Vice Admiral Charles Style said those coordinates put the British boarding vessels 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi territory when the Iranians showed up.

Style said that the Iranians have given conflicting information on where they believe they picked up the Britons.

“The Iranian government has provided us with two different positions for the incident,” Style said. The first we received on Saturday and the second on Monday. As the map shows, the first of these points still lies within Iraqi territorial waters. We pointed this out to them on Sunday in diplomatic contacts.”

“After we did this, they then provided a second set of coordinates that places the incident in Iranian waters over two nautical miles from the position given by HMS Cornwall and confirmed by the merchant vessel,” Style said. “The two Iranian positions are just under a nautical mile apart -� 1,800 yards or so. It is hard to understand a reason for this change of coordinates. We unambiguously contest both the positions provided by the Iranians.”

Style said that an overflight of the merchant vessel was conducted Sunday morning, which confirmed it was anchored in Iraqi waters.

“The action by Iranian forces in arresting and detaining our people is unjustified and wrong,” Style said. “As such it is a matter of deep concern to us and the families of the people who have been taken. We continue not only to call for their safe, but for their safe and speedy, return, and we continue to seek immediate consular access to them as a prelude to their release.”

Britain and the United States have said the sailors and Marines were intercepted Friday after they completed a search of a civilian vessel in the Iraqi part of a waterway, where the border between Iran and Iraq has been disputed for centuries.

Iran said the crew members are being treated well, but refused to say where they are.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/11418947/detail.html
4 tosser |

Mar 29th, 2007 at 7:41 pm

Well that’s certainly interesting reading.

Still, I suppose they would say that, wouldn’t they?

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