I am the only person who is watching this coverage with a total disbelief at the double standards?
No. A lot of the callers to "Any Answers?" this afternoon made similar points.
For Britain to condemn Iran whilst supporting and aiding the United States is outrageous.
For more than six weeks, five Iranian diplomats have been held by US forces at an unknown location and in unknown conditions. They were arrested in Iraqi Kurdistan and accused of aiding the Iraqi resistance, there have been no charges and no trial, no consular access.
Shouldn't the UN be condemning the Americans and demanding immediate consular access. Either an international court or the UN itself should determine rapidly whether the Iranian captives have diplomatic status as Iran says. If they have, they should be released immediately. If they have not, they should either be charged and tried in a public and fair process, or released immediately.
The arrest of these five men is not the first such incident. The BBC also reports that Bush has ordered that Iranian agents should be captured or killed"
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
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Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan has been challenging the British account, he writes on his website:
""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, and they never have done this in the Gulf, only inside the Shatt because there it is the land border too. This published boundary is a fake with no legal force.
Accepting the British coordinates for the position of both HMS Cornwall and the incident, both were closer to Iranian land than Iraqi land. Go on, print out the map and measure it. Which underlines the point that the British produced border is not a reliable one."
He apparently has some expertise in this area, having worked for the maritime secion of the MoD during the 1991 gulf war.
Adam J
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