Iran has today seized three Royal Navy patrol boats. That might be an indication of how unseriously Iran's despots take things like U.K.-sponsored IAEA resolutions against them and their nuclear ambitions.
Belmont Club says it is part of a new offensive and that the mullahs may think Tony Blair and George W. Bush are irresolute during the election season -- but also that it might turn out to be a bad bet.
If the British sailors are not forthwith released it suggests that the Mullahs see Blair and his American ally, George Bush, as reduced to impotence by domestic political forces and see an opportunity to humiliate them. The Mullahs should be careful about trying to replay history...Posted by Alan at June 21, 2004 11:51 AMThe problem with putting Tony Blair in the batter's box where Jimmy Carter struck out is that Blair will immediately realize how not to approach this problem. Jimmy Carter lost his job by scraping to the Mullahs and Tony Blair did not come this far to alphabetically precede Carter and Chamberlain in the dictionary of failures.