Ahamdi Nejad to release sailors as gift to England

[Crvena zvezda]

Ananova - Iran will free captured UK sailors

Iran will free captured UK sailors

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he has pardoned and will free the 15 British naval personnel held by Iran as a "gift to Britain".
At a news conference in Tehran, he also theatrically awarded medals to the coastguards he said had captured the sailors and marines.
A Downing Street spokeswoman said: "We welcome what the President has said about the release of our 15 personnel. We are now establishing exactly what this means in terms of the method and timing of their release."
Mr Ahmadinejad said his government would release the detained 15 British sailors and marines promptly.
He said the sailors would be taken to Tehran airport at the end of the press conference he was addressing.
Mr Ahmadinejad said he had pardoned the sailors as a gift to the British people and to mark the birthday of Islam's Prophet Mohammed and Easter.
Earlier, Mr Ahmadinejad said Iran would never accept trespassing of its territorial waters.
"On behalf of the great Iranian people, I would like to thank the Iranian coastguard for courageously defending our Iranian territorial waters," the president added.
He then pinned medals on the chests of three coastguard officers.
The news conference was being eagerly watched both in Whitehall and by the families of the sailors and marines in their home ports. They were captured after boarding an Indian merchantman in what the UK has insisted were Iraqi territorial waters 13 days ago.

[Errigal]

This was a good decision by Iran. I will make Tony Blair's government look even more useless because they are clearly not in control of events. I heard the President of Iran say "this crisis should make the British people ask what their sailors are doing in both Iranian and Iraqi waters". That is a good question.

[Strengthandhonour]

I heard that the British government wrote some sort of letter of apology to the Iranians. If this is true, then hah..this just gives the Iranian much more influence.

[Milesian]

They have a wise leader. They are the lucky ones.

[Franze]

Iran is clearly the winner of the conflict.

[Errigal]

Originally Posted by Peter

Iran is clearly the winner of the conflict.

Yes they are the ones who are acting like adults and gentlemen in this whole mess. In comparison, Britain seems to hit a new low every few months now days.

[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by A Few Acres of Snow

Yes they are the ones who are acting like adults and gentlemen in this whole mess. In comparison, Britain seems to hit a new low every few months now days.

The British try to make themselves seem like intelligent gentlemen but this even has shown them in true colors as violent uneducated slobs loudmouthed trying to spread the English disease. Actually that's too nice of a comment the English disease, football hooliganism, is probably there only good thing they ever gave us. Basically they came out looking like yanks after this affair.

[Susi]

But but.. English people aren't all like this.. ._.

But it's true, Iran came out on top in this case.

[Crvena zvezda]

Ok. Technically footbnall hooliganism originated from Brazil. With the Torcida's of Brazil.

[Susi]

And technically, English people aren't all dirty yobs. kthx.

[Arthur Gordon Pym]

Ahmadinežad appears to be a PR master, at least judging from this episode.

He didn't display much prudence on other occasions though.

[EnglishJac]

A gift to England, how terribly kind considering it was and is the Scottish sending them there

[Errigal]

You mean because Tony Blair was born in Scotland?
I think the last thing anyone needs to worry about is the number of Scots in the current government. The number of ex-communists and Atlanticists is much more important.

[EnglishJac]

I mean because Tony Blair is Scottish, Gordon brown is Scottish, Des browne is Scottish John Reid is Scottish, the most prominent positions within the British government are held by Scots.

Then add the devolution question, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (when they are behaving themselves) have devolved government, where as the English are run by the British government, the Scots vote on matters affecting both England and Scotland the English can only on England due to the creation of the Scottish parliament.

English denied life saving cancer drugs, available in Scotland, student tuition fees voted in favour by Scottish MPs in England but not Scotland, and then there is the Barnet formula

The English simply to not have any government any representation, hence the rise in English nationalism.

So I say Scottish because that’s what it is, they don’t call it the Scottish raj/mafia for nothing you know.

[EnglishJac]

This is the labour party we are talking about, John Ried is an Ex communist.

people will not forget the inactive English MPs letting this happen either, they seem oblivious to the mood of the English folk, Brit Unionists are panicking a little.

I urge the scots in their local elections, vote SNP,set England free

[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by prometheus

Ahmadinežad appears to be a PR master, at least judging from this episode.

He didn't display much prudence on other occasions though.

Of course he is. When ever you see ho, with the ayatollahs or even almost any leader of any other country he shows respect to them and constantly acts in such a way that it seems like he treats them as equals. Unlike of course the Anglo-Americans.

[EnglishJac]

A PR master to whom exactly, surely the propaganda nonsense was only directed at his own people, because no one in their right mind outside of Iran would have believed such tripe, except of course certain eastern Europeans perhaps.

The whole episode was a debacle, but like I say you can’t exactly blame the English for this one. This is a caldonian-american affair

[Errigal]

Originally Posted by EnglishJac