Fifteen British sailors have been captured by the Iranian coastguard while conducting espionage in Iranian waters. What were they doing there? Boarding ships to combat smuggling. Where does Britain get the authority to do so? Is it an international policeman? Trying to stop arms smuggling to the insurgents, who have every right to fight the occupation, while the U.S. and Britain are transporting billions of dollars of military hardware to kill the Iraqi people? But, that of course is not called smuggling!
Britain is allowed to defend its coast, but what is Her Majesty's Fleet doing in the Gulf? Why isn't it stopping smuggling vessels off the coast of England, Scotland and Wales? It is an open secret that U.S. special forces are operating inside Iran, why wouldn't the British give it a try in Iran's territorial waters?
The British government is appalled that its boys (and one girl) have been captured, but they were not supposed to be there in the first place. It was an incident waiting to happen, that so far has not spinned out of control to give the U.S. an excuse to launch the long-planned attack on Iran. But the next incident might.
On January 11, U.S. forces stormed the Iranian liaison office in Arbil, Iraq, and seized five Iranian officials, who are still held in captivity. All these incidents are pre-planned to build a case for war. To justify the unjustifyable: another war of aggression, the third in a row, following Afghanistan and Iraq.
Britain claims its 15 soldiers were in Iraqi waters, thereby trying to put the blame on Iran for crossing an international boundary. Considering the blatant lies the British government has told and continues to tell, until further proof, we'd rather believe the Iranians. The British are playing a dirty game in the service of their American patrons to provoke a war with Iran.
They might indeed succeed, but in the end they will be defeated.
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