Tag Archives: Iran

“The arrest and release of the British sailors proved that if Iran’s issues and demands are overlooked at the international level, the Islamic republic can create different challenges for the other side,” said an Iranian parliamentarian and IRGC official. Iranian made and shipped IEDs/EFP account for over 30 British deaths in Iraq.

Basra’s chief of police said the EFP that killed 4 British soldiers appears to be Iranian made. Iran calls for a “goodwill gesture” after the relaese of 15 captive sailors and marines. The captive Brits believed they were going to be executed by black-clad Iranian soldiers.

Iran has released the 15 British sailors after President Ahmedinejad ‘pardoned’ them for perportedly entering Iranian waters. The sailors have boarded a flight home to London.

President Ahmadinejad claimed the 15 British sailors and marines have been pardoned and will be released. The US has “secretly encouraged and advised” the Baluch insurgent group Jundallah in attacking Iran.

An Iranian diplomat detained in Baghdad in February is reported to have returned to Iran. Iraq is pressing for the release of the IRGC agents captured in Irbil. Iran is indicating it will not try the 15 captive British sailors. Iran may have a nuclear weapon by 2009. A former FBI agent has gone missing […]

About 200 “demonstrators” lit off firecrackers and threw rocks at the British embassy Tehran. Iran is due to release more “confessions” from the captured British sailors in their custody. Forty-eight percent of the British public oppose using force against Iran under any circumstances.

Tehran’s ambassador to Moscow said the British servicemen captured in the Shatt Al Arab waterway may be tried. “”The legal phase concerning these British soldiers has started and if charges against them are proven, they will be punished.” Italy’s central bank has taken effective control over Sepah, the Iranian state bank.

The Iranian IRGC navy capture of 15 British sailors was a premeditated act. Iran has released more letters and video of the sailors’ “confessions.” Oil is at a yearly high of $66 due to the crisis.

The UK denied Iranian claims that British forces have surrounded the Iranian offices in the city of Basra. Iran has withdrawn the offer to release the female British officer. The UK will not negotiate for the release of their servicemen, and has taken their case to the UN. The EU is considering suspending diplomatic ties […]

Britain has released evidence its sailors and marines were 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters when the IRGC naval force intercepted and captured them. Iran claimed they were 0.5 nautical miles inside Iranian waters. The price of oil has risen to $65 a barrel over the crisis and rumors of a US strike on Iran […]