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

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> On 4/4/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > 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.

Can you see this?:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/03/29/world/0329-for-webBRITAIN.jpg

I think that image is freely available.  If it isn't, I can put it on my 
server for you.

All of the arguments I've heard about related to the locations of the 
boats, not the locations of the boundary.  Are the Iranians contesting the 
boundary?  I haven't heard that.  I did find this:

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1923.shtml

   Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray maintains "the
   Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does
   not exist. It has been drawn up by the British government. Only Iraq
   and Iran can agree their bilateral boundary . . . The published
   boundary is a fake with no legal force."

I found other documents arguing that the boundary is "poorly defined" and 
such, but none saying that the British and Iranians disagree about where 
the boundary lies.

Mike

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