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Originally Posted by TheDragon
Looks like the captive British sailors have been released, as per BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6525905.stm
Still, it looked and still looks too much like political posturing. This whole thing just screams staged to me, since Ah-Jad is particularily having trouble convincing his people he's capable of the job. Great way to boost your image in the public eye, I suppose.
Either that, or the UK struck up some kind of under the table deal with them.
I dunno. At the end of the day, the Brits have been released. That's good news. |
Ah-Jad just successfully played chicken with the West and won. No serious action was taken in retaliation for what essentially was an act of war by the Iranian government.
That, or the US and UK were a lot more hardlined in their negotiations than they appeared in the media. Something along the lines of what Cap'n Crunch said a few days... ie. we have a nuclear submarine just sitting off your coast. The nuclear negotiating chip is still strongly in the West's hands at this stage, I'm certain it was at least brought up once or twice when talking to little Ah-Jad.