Posted by
JBDavis on Monday, April 02, 2007 3:58:16 PM
Britain is willing to discuss ways to avoid boundary confusion:
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran and Britain signaled possible ways out of the standoff over 15 detained British soldiers Monday, with Tehran saying there was no need to put the crew on trial and Britain saying it was willing to discuss ways to avoid future boundary confusion in the Persian Gulf.
This BS is in the story too:
This weekend, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper of London reported that Britain was considering sending a senior Royal Navy officer to Tehran to discuss the return of the service members as well as discuss ways to avoid future incidents.
All that suggested that the two sides were seeking a face-facing formula in which each could maintain that its interests were upheld and the captives could go free. Under such a formula, Iran could claim that Britain tacitly acknowledged that the border area was in dispute. Britain could maintain that it never apologized.
A generation ago, such a formula helped free U.S. diplomats held by Tehran for 444 days. The United States pledged not to interfere in Iranian affairs, enabling the hostage takers to claim they had achieved their goal.
These people cannot stand to tell why Iran let the hostages go. REAGAN, plain and simple. They knew he would not play around the Carter did.