Comments on: The Iran/British/US Prisoner Situation

By: lewis

lewis — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:14:08 +0000

I think the Iran’s President M. A. has an inferiority complex(think North Korean dictator) and just wants the attention he thinks he and Iran deserves. This 3rd rate “fascist” wants the world to know he’s “The Man” and that Iran is a power to be recon with. Call me crazy but I think ONE of the factors of all this posturing is becauses he’s getting back at the western world because of the movie “300″. If you haven’t seen this movie(and M.A. did and was incensed about it) it makes Persians(Iran) look very bad. The other facor is that he can instill national pride by thumbing his nose at Britain, this also serves to distract the Iranian public from the high unemployment(40%) and high poverty the population is experiencing.

By: Yirmin Snipe

Yirmin Snipe — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:42:40 +0000

USD Law Student,
Your an idiot. Under your theory if a state puts someone jail for murder then the family of that man has the right to put a police officer in jail because they feel like it.

Iranians are trespassing if they are in Iraq and should be shot as spies.

By: USD Law Student

USD Law Student — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:55:15 +0000

Monica-

I totally agree that the issue of where the sailors actually were is far from settled, and I also tend to believe the british.

However, the seizure of the sailors can be compared to the US arresting iranian agents in as much as this incidence is probably a tit for tat retaliation by the iranians for those arrests.

By: Monica

Monica — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:02:47 +0000

*Why on earth are you comparing the US arresting Iraqi agents in Iraq with this move by Iran?

should be..

Why on earth are you comparing the US arresting Iranian agents in Iraq with this move by Iran?

By: Alan Stewart Carl

Alan Stewart Carl — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:27:59 +0000

We don’t know what waters the Brits were in … Blair says they were not in Iranian waters and I tend to believe the Brits over the Iranians. Whether or not this is a clear act of aggression by the Iranians is still to be determined — it could just be a situation where an Iranian captain got a little over-zealous and now Iran is trying to save face. Or it could have been a planned event. We don’t know.

But Iran sure seems to be playing a pretty serious game of chicken with the West (or at least with the U.S. and U.K.). Not good.

By: Monica

Monica — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:23:43 +0000

Justin -

Iran says the British soldiers were in their waters, but they say they were in Iraq waters. Yet – you state it as a fact that the soldiers were in Iran’s waters. Why?

The US has a mandate from the UN to be in Iraq and help them secure their country. Why on earth are you comparing the US arresting Iraqi agents in Iraq with this move by Iran?

You totally baffle me.

By: bob in fl

bob in fl — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:03:06 +0000

Pajamas Media expects to gain credibility with a name like that?

Seriously, I never thought of that angle in this situation. It makes a lot of sense.