Thursday, March 29, 2007

Boneheaded Iranians Making Fools Of Themselves

So Iran seizes 15 British sailors who were part of a boarding party inspecting a merchant ship, claiming that the ship the sailors were operating from, the HMS Cornwall, was in Iranian waters at the time.

In response, Britain provides a set of coordinates indicating where the sailors were captured, showing the HMS Cornwall to be in Iraqi waters... not Iranian waters.

Iran comes back with, "Oh of course you would give false coordinates to try to prove us wrong. THESE are the actual coordinates where we captured your sailors." (And they provided a new set of coordinates where they insisted the HMS Cornwall was operating.)

Problem is that the new set of coordinates the Iranians provided also shows the British sailors were captured in Iraqi waters... not Iranian waters.

And we're nervous that this country might develop a nuclear weapon? They can't even find their own country (or at least it's territorial waters) on a map.

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