TagsTagsFormer UN ambassador John Bolton sums up the British sailor fiasco, in a Financial Times article: Iran won sailors battle with Britain: Bolton. Some commentators here have said the United States should learn a lesson from Britain’s handling of the detainees issue in respect to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme. ...
The Iranians have released another video of the hostages, supposedly to show how well they were treated. This just keeps getting worse.
Faye Turney, the female British sailor held hostage by Iran, is appearing (for money) on ITV today. We’ll have the video a bit later, courtesy of LGF operative Kasper. Meanwhile, the UK government has now banned paid military interviews. LONDON (AP) - Britain on Monday banned all military service members from ...
It’s shocking, I know, but the mullahs are gloating and promising more of the same for Britain: Buoyant Teheran warns of further kidnappings. Hardliners in the Iranian regime have warned that the seizure of British naval personnel demonstrates that they can make trouble for the West whenever they want to and ...
The pathetic saga of the British hostages has reached rock bottom: Fury as the hostages sell stories. The 15 British military captives who were released by the Iranians have been authorised by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to sell their stories. MoD officials claimed that the move to lift the ban on ...
From Iranian TV. I don’t even know what to say about this, except that it’s very disturbing.
Retired Army Col. Jack Jacobs calls the British sailors’ press conference the most disgraceful thing he’s seen in 40 years. (Hat tip: Hot Air.) [Video]
Jules Crittenden has a good compilation of the output of the analysis and opinion mills, analyzing and opinionating about the British sailor fiasco: Home is Where the Humiliation Is. Publius Pundit notes that those hideous polyester suits Iran made the hostages wear had an odd feature—no ties: Dressed To Mock. I don’t ...
The mullahs dressed their British hostages up in horrible polyester suits and staged a last series of propaganda photos, and now they’re on the way back to Britain: British navy crew leaves Iran for London. Tony Blair says, “No hard feelings.” TEHRAN, Iran - Fifteen British sailors and marines held captive for ...
When news broke that the Iranians had seized 15 British sailors, I asked, “What would Maggie do?” Well, I don’t really know what Margaret Thatcher would do in this situation. That’s why I posed it as a question. But I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be this. How could the British forces have been ...
Mark Steyn on the appalling fecklessness of the West in the face of undisguised Islamic supremacist aggression: Taking of hostages by Iran is not Britain’s finest hour. The U.N. will do nothing for men seized on a U.N.-sanctioned mission. The European Union will do nothing for its “European citizens.” But if ...
The mullahs have been greatly encouraged by the British government’s inaction, and a mob (yes, this time a real mob) attacked the British embassy in Tehran this morning. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Rocks and firecrackers have been thrown at the British embassy in Tehran as the row over 15 captured sailors ...
Former Iranian president Mohamed Khatami, who was recently feted as a “moderate” on a tour of US and British universities, and who gave an autograph to John F. Kerry in Davos, boasted to the London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi that Iran’s abduction of 15 British sailors is a demonstration of the ...
MEMRI TV has the video from Iranian television of those captured British sailors confessing to trespassing in Iranian waters and apologizing abjectly. [Video] British journalist Matthew Norman agrees with the Iranians: We’ve lost the authority to lecture Iran. (Hat tip: Occasional Reader.) UPDATE at 3/30/07 8:28:57 am: To make one thing clear, I am ...
A mob in Tehran called for the execution of the 15 British hostages being held by the mullahs. And Iran now says they won’t release female sailor Faye Turney, despite her admission of guilt. In an interview broadcast on Iranian TV, Leading Seaman Turney said the group had been seized in the ...
The mullahs say they’re going to charge 15 captive British sailors with espionage. What would Margaret Thatcher do? FIFTEEN British sailors and marines arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying. A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that ...
Iran is behaving like a nation that wants to provoke an attack this morning; it’s a clear casus belli, but with the current enervated state of the UK, action is doubtful: Britain: Iran seizes 15 sailors, marines. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iranian naval vessels on Friday ...