Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] News Alert: Iran's Leader Says He'll Release 15 Britons (fwd)

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 4/4/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Jonathan King wrote:
>
> > On 4/4/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >>
> >> For what it's worth, I believe the British boat was not in Iranian waters,
> >> but I don't think the Iranian people believe that.
> >
> > The last I heard, it is not actually clear where the border is here
> > because of the way the Iran-Iraq war ended. We are talking about a
> > matter of several hundred yards here. The obvious reason why Iran would
> > be skittish about any incursions relates to the fact that there are two
> > US carrier groups and some other British forces in the Gulf; there are
> > rumors of imminent attack on a daily basis.
>
> The Iranians first statement of the position was within Iraqi waters, but
> they then retracted that and gave a different position.  At least that is
> what the British are saying.

But the point is that there is no agreed-upon boundary here. The
British are using a plausible boundary line, and I am not saying they
are wrong, but it would not surprise me if what the British, the
Iraqis and the Iranians thought was the boundary were three different
things here.

In any case, we get a sort of happy ending, and that was not
necessarily going to happen.

jking

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