How do you view the event of British Sailors?

How do you view the event of British Sailors?
Apr 9, 2007 01:36
JIMMYB Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: offline	On April 4th, the president of Iran announced to free the 15 British sailors. On April 5th,theycame back to Britain.The next day, they held a press conference. At the conference, they said that they did not invade the territory of Iran and they were detained by Iran illeagally. This is different from what they said before. Confronted with this situation, Iran said that it was a 'staged show'. The British government said that there was no deal with Iran to secure release of detained sailors. People react differently to this issue. Someone says that Iran has made a success in diplomacy and unites its people together. On April first, people paraded in front of British Embassy to denounce the 15 British sailors' illeagal entrance of Iran territory. People in Britain start to suspect that the government's policies adopted in the Middle East are wrong. they should not stand together with US. People said that the British government reacted passively and slowly to this issue. How do you view about this issue? Is this a trick played by Iran or just an incident?

Apr 9, 2007 01:36

JIMMYB
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On April 4th, the president of Iran announced to free the 15 British sailors. On April 5th,theycame back to Britain.The next day, they held a press conference. At the conference, they said that they did not invade the territory of Iran and they were detained by Iran illeagally. This is different from what they said before. Confronted with this situation, Iran said that it was a 'staged show'. The British government said that there was no deal with Iran to secure release of detained sailors.
People react differently to this issue. Someone says that Iran has made a success in diplomacy and unites its people together. On April first, people paraded in front of British Embassy to denounce the 15 British sailors' illeagal entrance of Iran territory. People in Britain start to suspect that the government's policies adopted in the Middle East are wrong. they should not stand together with US. People said that the British government reacted passively and slowly to this issue.
How do you view about this issue? Is this a trick played by Iran or just an incident?

Apr 9, 2007 01:53	#1
CALIFORNIA Points: Join Date: Jul 22, 2005 Status: Offline	So many lies:-(

Apr 9, 2007 02:32	#2
LEOPOLD219 Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Politicians are always troublesome.

Apr 9, 2007 03:15

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The event of British Sailors has fully exposed intentions of U.S and Britain.

Related figures:
1、Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
At the news briefing, Ahmadinejad asserted:"Release is a gift for Britain." Although British Prime Minister kept on claiming that British sailor has not penetrated Iran, even showed the satellite photos to prove. It's nothing. Because originally it is not easy to distinguish between the maritime boundary.

2、Blair
At the beginning of the event, Blair posed tough stance, forced Iran to release those sailors, otherwise "Do not rule out the use of force"; Once Iran reflected tough, he immediately changed attitude, "through all diplomatic means to resolve"; When those sailors were released, he exposed fierce attitude. In his speech, there are a series of frustrations——"It's too premature to define the incident"——"Iran government has nothing to do with it"——"Iran, at least in terms of money and weapons to support them". So ugly!

3、British Sailors
They overturned their speech in Iran, when they return to Britain, claiming that they never violated Iran's mare clausum. Why is there such a situation? We could analyze the details of the two television. In Iran, the sailors' performance were more relaxed, joked with each other, obviously didn't undertake too much pressure. But it is different in Britain. Apparently those remarks were not what they want to say. They had no choice but to speak out what they didn't want under pressure. They serve the national interest. That's true.

Event Analysis:
As everyone noticed, when the sailors were released, Blair and Bush had a long telephone conversation, then their attitude became tough. Iran Nuclear Crisis tensioned again. U.S. Secretary of Defense said that there was nothing to do with the release of sailors and 5 Iranians detained in the United States. And on "Iran Nuclear Crisis", United States continues to claim "not nearly fast attacking Iran", notice Iran can continue to engage in diplomatic efforts. No doubt the attitude of the United States exposed the helplessness of the United States in Iran's Nuclear Crisis. On one side, Iran's military strength is not weak. U.S. meet insufficient military preparations, opposition from the domestic people. In my opinion, "Event of British Sailors" is a measure of Iran to explore the bottom line of Britain and United States. Judging from the current situation, Iran understand the situation of United States——not dare to fight, not quit. As long as it does not force the hand in the United States, Iran is safe.

Apr 9, 2007 04:02	#4
LEOPOLD219 Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Wow, Johnny512. It seems that you are an expert on this issue. Good analysis. Hope the war between US and Iran won't break.

Apr 9, 2007 19:22	#5
APAULT Points: Join Date: Mar 11, 2006 Status: Offline	Don't forget a lot of supposedly international politics is really for domestic consumption. It sure went down well with the Iranian people who became even stronger supporters of their government! Happy President!

Apr 11, 2007 23:10	#6
KEVIN0518 Points: Join Date: Mar 13, 2007 Status: Offline	Iran makes a victory in diplomacy. But the nuclear issue is still the key. How will Iran do faced with the pressure from international communitiy?

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