ALHOLK Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I was refeering to the evacuation of the US embassy which was on every TV channel in the world, repeatedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted March 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 It may have been a provovation from the british side too. On swedish text-tv it was mentioned that the ship that the RN inspected was iranian. If true you can compare it with a situation where a japanese war ship checks a russian ship in the disputed area north of Japan - the Kurils. The russian answer would be swift and the involved military prosecuted for piracy. Actually I think USA started a war with UK over an inspection incident??? Yes you can bomb the shit out of Iran but they can send 2 million men to fight in Iraq even after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 << Actually I think USA started a war with UK over an inspection incident??? >> Abe Lincoln damn near did after his navy seized a British passenger ship on the high seas and arrested the Confederate commissioners on their way to Britain and France in 1861. The British actually reinforced their troops in Canada, in case fighting did break out. But you must be thinking of the War of 1812, which in a large part was the result of British warships stopping American merchants ships and "impressing" their crews. The Royal Navy was short of men and at first only impressed British born naturalised American citizens. But later the RN began impressing native born American citizens as well, sometimes hardly leaving enough men on the merchant ships for them to manage to reach a port. Thus it was ironic that Lincoln did the almost same thing that the US government had condemned the Brits for half a century earlier. As to the British sailors and marines, note the latest: THE PENINSULAR 25 March 2007 Britons detained in Iraqi waters, says fisherman Basra, Iraq (Reuters) - An Iraqi fisherman who said he saw Iranian forces detain British sailors and marines on Friday in a waterway between Iraq and Iran said yesterday the ship British forces were searching was anchored in Iraqi waters. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Here ya go, those "last yanks running like scared little rabbits" from the "embassy" ... or whatever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vietnamescape.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Meanwhile back in the Middle East I see Iran has rejected the new sanctions... http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/March/middleeast_March385.xml§ion=middleeast&col= This should free someone to arrest a few Iranian diplomats/business men outside of Iran. Lebanon would be my guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted March 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 You're never allowed to arrest diplomats. Old news now but yesterday evening media reported that the iranians the british for espionage and the only possible penalty if found guilty is death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 What about holding diplomats hostages, including entire embassies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted March 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 You know the answer but it wasn't the iranian government that time, it was the fundamentalists. Combined with an idiotic commando attack instead of threatening to bomb there holy city and places made it a peanut failure... :grin: Also what happened with the CIA archive! Actually the hostages were not freed until Reagan was president but he sent the peanut to meet them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukhumvit Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Oh, hogwash. The Brits were in rubber boats with outboard motors. The Islamofacists were in Full Metal Gunships. Come on now ! My dear fellow, what has that got to do with it? To paraphrase one Royal Navy commander "it took 200 years to build a reputation and I'm not going to lose it in an afternoon." There was a time when they'd have taken them on regardless. Why, there was an incident in WW2 when a former converted tug boat, or other such rustbucket, commandeered by the RN took on a German warship with the deckswab firing potshots at the said German ship with a .303 as they were under the elevation of the German guns. Now, whilst that may be silly it takes massive cojones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojis Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 "Now, whilst that may be silly it takes massive cojones. " Sukhumvit, massive corones aren't very useful after going through a rain of large caliber bullets. Ur navy boys don't need to be suicidal to deserve respect and probably they also wanted to give a shot at CT's sin city rather than end torn up at sea in a time of relative peace between the two involved countries. How's that story going anyway, public holidays should be over in Tehran ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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