Iran
This is, quite clearly a hot topic – and I have tried to leave this for as long as possible before making a comment on it so I don’t have to either a) keep on editing the post or b) keep on posting updates.
Iran have got themselves and us into a bit of a fix. We’re both at a stage where neither of us can back down without looking weak. Quite simply – we’re stuck.
Neither the UK or the Iranian governments are going to admit that the other is right – no matter whether it is true or false – and I think that they are probably both at a stage in the preceedings where even if their data is fabricated (on either side) then they will start to believe it.
The communication from within Iran has been used totally ineffectively – starting a letter with:
Dear Representative of the House of Commons
– what kind of a brit would *ever* use that – and if they did, they’d fail New Labour’s citizenship test.
Therefore the demands within that letter – withdrawal from Iraq – cannot be taken seriously, however the opposite is true of the treatment of the soldiers as even if this was written by Faye Turney’s hand, it certainly didn’t contain her own words, therefore her own beliefs – and therefore necesarily the truth.
So, both in this post, and in the situation – we’ve got nowhere. The UN has proved itself to be useless – the EU is doing what it always does, offer mindless chatter but no action and meanwhile Mugabe’s Zimbabwe looks set to have to endure another half decade of violence, torture and general persecution because the African continent is afraid to stand up for itself.
As I’ve just expressed in this post on Twitter I’m a) not feeling great and b) not in a good mood (as a result of both that and also an argument in a restaurant earlier) so apologies for the slightly rambling nature of this post and as ever, I’m offering a vaguely reasonable excuse.
