"We continue to express our willingness to engage in dialogue and discussions with Iran," Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said at a European Union summit in Bremen, Germany. I think everyone regrets that this position has arisen ... What we want is a way out of it."

Everyone 'regrets' the inevitable 'next'.

"Instead of apologizing over trespassing by British forces, the world arrogant powers issue statements and deliver speeches," the country's official news agency quoted Ahmadinejad [I'madinkyjackoff] as saying.

Dear arrogant powers:

Summon football. Select Teheran. Press red button. Channel Slim
Pickens "yeehaw".

Posted by: turn at April 1, 2007 1:05 AM

You are wrong again Ahmadinejad as the British are not arrogant, but deluded to grandeur in thinking they matter in you will negotiate with them as their Tony Blair and company apparently have a fetish thrill in you abusing them.
Liberals have this tendency in enjoying self abuse or allowing other to abuse them....Hillary Clinton married to serial sexual predator Bill is but an example of the sickness.

The Brits though have taken this to a new extreme in apparently liking national abuse dished out by a pimp nation like Iran.
I grew up deeply admiring the British as they are part of my lines in the upper classes and I even have some tommy websets which I adore from WW II, but except for old Mags I don't think there is a man left in Britain like Drake, Wolfe or Churchill.

This is most perplexing, because John Howard is leading a bunch of twits and America has 200 million of them, Canada in the east is twit central and there just are not that many Canucks in the plains....excpet for the Boers holding out in Africa there just isn't anyone capable of standing with America.

I never thought I would see the day that this would happen. God help the good.

Posted by: Lame Cherry at April 1, 2007 1:34 AM

Okay, so then WHICH world powers have given England the orders NOT to take military action?

Gone are the days when nations acted on their own terms. Now they need permission to use the toilet.

Isn't it interesting how Tony Blair and George Bush have BOTH (at the same time) been transformed into powerless leaders? Wonder why this has been done.

Is it possible that financial interests have warned against any military action? After all, there are huge investments in Iran. Maybe everyone wants England to sit still and take the humiliation (like they always ask Israel to do), so as not to disrupt the oil supply.

EVERY political decision ultimately....is about MONEY.

Posted by: The Goobs at April 1, 2007 2:25 AM

"Instead of apologizing over trespassing by British forces, the world arrogant powers issue statements and deliver speeches,"

I thought that's what you wanted? A speech issuing a statement. Of course that statement would have to contain a apology, then it would be ok.
What do you expect from a small time, tin horn, local arrogant power?

Go figure.

Posted by: havekoranwilltravel at April 1, 2007 7:04 AM

When Ahmadinejad says 'arrogant' he means in the Islamic sense, Britain are infidel and as such, in his mind, have no business standing up to, let alone contradicting the word of a Muslim. This whole incident is about imposing the dhimma, Ahmadinejad needs to Blair to stand down, and he has him over a barrell (of oil). Blair cannot send in the SAS - the Revolutionary Guard are too well trained and equipped for that, nor can he put Iran under seige - Russia and China will see to that. So let's see just how slippery Blair can be, he's appeared teflon coated 'til now. Of course tha assassination of Ahmadinejad would do every one in the world a favour, but i doubt Blair has the balls for that.

Posted by: Tziona at April 1, 2007 7:05 AM

The Brits take a while to get upset, they need a few more weeks of Ahmadinejad spouting off. The Britts take real seriously control. (not enough Latin blood there). The Britts are getting more upset at the EU letting them twist in the wind, and when the Britt masses get angry, and the upper elites find their balls, Iran will be very sorry.

Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at April 1, 2007 7:25 AM

The arrogance is to think we can absorb Muslim immigration or let Iran have nukes or Pakistan keep them and not be changed and ultimately defeated and absorbed by them. That is arrogance.

Its the arrogant of thinking we are invulnerable and that they can't hurt us there or here. Leftism is this arrogance. David Horowitz has pointed this out in his writing.

Posted by: Old Atlantic at April 1, 2007 8:32 AM

When I read about Ahmadinejad saying the British had "an incorrect attitude", my first thougth was, "that arrogant bastard..." Funny he's calling the Brits arrogant.
Seems to me muslims can't be beat for arrogance.

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at April 1, 2007 9:00 AM

It's the same "take off tiny bits at a time" scenario that Hitler used during the thirties.

Until the West realizes that a world war pitting Islam aginst the rest is inevitable, it will continue.

As soon as they push too far (and they will), if it's not too late, the West will get onto a war footing, the people will sacrifice for the war effort, and fight. But if it doesn't happen soon enough . . . all is lost.

Wake up America, Europe, Australia, Asia, we are being attacked. Stop all immigration from muslim coutnries, close down all madrassas, arrest any imam that preaches hate, and fight to survive.

Posted by: walterc at April 1, 2007 9:55 AM

According to poll, ONLY SEVEN PER CENT of Brits believe that the use of force is called for in a situation for which there is no other remotely decent option.

Years of the BBC and Multiculti indoctrination have obviously reduced 'Great' Britain to a doddering old pervert looking for a dominatrix.

Posted by: poetcomic1 at April 1, 2007 9:56 AM

Ministers are preparing a compromise deal to allow Iran to save face and release its 15 British military captives by promising that the Royal Navy will never knowingly enter Iranian waters without permission...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=OM5SSHFCW2BBVQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/04/01/wiran01.xml

Well, I think you know what I have to say about this if it is true, (and it probably has some truth to it), so there's no point in saying it; is there?

Posted by: witness at April 1, 2007 10:13 AM

now iranians have attacked the british embassy in tehran, and their president calls the UK arrogant? get our troops home then set about funding the iranian revolution. free these people from their sick idealology called islam.

Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at April 1, 2007 10:13 AM

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1258555,00.html

could you imagine the international outrage if a mob of racists, hardline neo-nazi skinheads turned up at the iranian embassy in london or wherever in europe and attacked it? the EU would be pissing themselves to apologise.

where's the EU and U.N. or the Arab league condemming this act???

seriously i feel like i need to do something, join the nat'l guard or become a mercenary to exact revenge on these shit heads.

Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at April 1, 2007 10:19 AM

seriously i feel like i need to do something, join the nat'l guard or become a mercenary to exact revenge on these shit heads.

Before you go marching off to war, make sure you stock pile lots of cash for your eventual court-marshall, once you get back home.

The British and American military are fond of bringing charges against their own troops for such things as returning fire; imagine what will happen if you actually went on a "search and destroy" type mission -- and actually succeeded.

You'll end up paying reparations before you're done.

Again, some advice -- stay home or save up for the court costs before you go.

Posted by: witness at April 1, 2007 10:32 AM

According to DEBKAfile’s sources in Washington and London, the British government had no choice but to give ground in its standoff with Iran after Western allied backing melted away. The UN Security Council invoked by Britain Friday, March 30, refused to deplore Iran’s conduct; and the European Union rejected London’s demand for an export boycott against Iran.

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=3997

How do you say "Moooooo" in "British?"

"Mah, Mah, Mooooooooo, waht!"

Posted by: witness at April 1, 2007 11:04 AM

There is another arrogance that the western leaders have, a belief that the enemy thinks and believes like them. The arrogance that believes there is no need to learn about mohammedanism as it is only another Abrahamic monotheistic faith.

The western leaders and msm's willful ignorance of the politics of the enemy and of sharia, the laws that must accompany the mohamamedans where ever they go as it is the law given by allah and superior to the corrupt laws of the kufir, fuels a hubris that will bring down our free world if allowed to go unchecked.

These 'yesterday's men' as Hugh has so aptly named them will be left in the dust as the understanding of the ethical dualism of islam, its primitive spiritual doctrine and its master/slave consciousness promulgates through out the world.

Posted by: the poetess at April 1, 2007 11:05 AM

UK Embassy in Tehran hit by violent protest

UK Embassy in Tehran hit by violent protest comments at Times online

This is real hate. Some say the cure for this hate is to give them citizenship in the US or Europe. But giving them citizenship doesn't make them say they got enough, it makes them say they want more.This is how they feel.

They demonstrate the same way here as there. This is what the Quran tells them. So it is written, so they do it from 622 AD to now. Britons are hostages now and they want that there and here.

Posted by: Old Atlantic at April 1, 2007 11:31 AM

The President of Iran is an expert at agit-prop, so his comments are not surprising.

The situation is win-win for Iran. Britain has determined that 15 lives are worth their national security and consequently have become impotent. They will do nothing of substance, and Tehran is well aware of this fact. One can only imagine the outrageous legally binding agreements Iran will require Great Britain to sign (which will, of course, be enforced by the UN and EU) to secure the release of their people.

The President of Iran might be crazy, but he's not stupid.

Posted by: s at April 1, 2007 12:38 PM

Apologize fulsomely.

Get the hostages released.

STRIKE HARD!

(Taqiyya is a two-way camelpath.)

Posted by: profitsbeard at April 1, 2007 2:17 PM

Casus belli

Posted by: joeblough at April 2, 2007 1:50 AM

The fifteen political footballs better get used to halal food.

Posted by: hemoglobin at April 2, 2007 3:25 AM

Ahmadinejad is a Devil incarnate. Just as Devil thrives on lies.. so is he. Ultimately goodness triumphs over evil.

Posted by: Lopged at April 2, 2007 5:37 AM

Iran has backed itself into a one way street.
They know full well that if they give us the hostages back, we will probably take punitive action against them.

What they don't know, and never can, is at which point we will do so anyway. The more they make threats against them, the closer that trigger point gets. Also whatever actions they are undertaking in the background (the actions these hostages were taken to cover up), will still be being watched. They themselves may trigger action.

With events in Pakistan, and events in Iran, some serious Muslim ass kicking may well be imminent.
Not before time. This time lets kick em so hard they never come back for more, no more mr nice guy. A good old fashioned thrashing.

Posted by: Defender of The Realm at April 2, 2007 6:54 AM

ZenaWarriorPrincess,
As a Brit I can tell the appetite for more war at the beginning of this ordeal was practically zero. That is changing.
A significant portion of us (including me) now want to send in the SAS. The rescue operation should take most of a morning.

You are right that the Brits have cooler blood...but we're only a couple of short weeks away from boiling point.

Posted by: Whiggish at April 2, 2007 9:11 AM