*update* The Sailors have been released
Another act of war against the Brits. Too bad they don’t hold their national security in higher esteem. Remember the last time this happened? 15 British Sailors were taken hostage in 2007 for 12 days. The British government did nothing. Gordon Brown waffled for weeks until they were let go. All this does is simply embolden the enemy and lookey here, they’ve done it again.
The Kingdom of Bahrain was sailing from Bahrain to Dubai when it was stoppd
Five British sailors are being held hostage in Iran.
The Foreign Office confirmed that a racing yacht owned by Sail Bahrain and crewed by five British sailors was detained by the Iranian Navy on November 25.
The yacht had been on its way to Dubai and, according to the Foreign Office, may have ‘inadvertently’, strayed into Iranian waters.
If confirmed, the detention of the British sailors will dramatically increase tensions between Iran and the West….
Previously snatched in Iran…
Snatched in Iran
444 days. In November 1979 Iranian students seized 63 hostages at the US Embassy in Tehran, demanding that the Shah return from America to face trial. A rescue mission ended in disaster and led to the demise of Jimmy Carter’s presidency. The last 52 hostages were freed on January 20, 1981, hours after Carter left office. They had been held for 444 days
122 days. Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, all Americans, were charged with espionage after straying into Iran from northern Iraq on July 31 this year. Their families say they were hiking and crossed the border accidentally. Espionage carries a possible death sentence in Iran. They have been held for 122 days
100 days. The US/Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi was sentenced to eight years in jail this year on espionage charges and working for a “hostile state” after a trial lasting 15 minutes. An appeal court overturned this conviction on the ground that the United States and Iran could not be defined as hostile towards each other. She was detained for 100 days
12 days. In 2007 15 British sailors and Royal Marines aboard the HMS Cornwall were surrounded, arrested and taken prisoner by the navy of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Iran claimed that the British had strayed into its territorial waters; Britain said that the ship was always in Iraqi waters. The British personnel were freed after 12 days
3 days. In 2004 six Marines and two sailors were seized by Iran in the same area. The captured personnel appeared on Iranian television blindfolded but were released after Iran said that they had mistakenly crossed into its waters. Their ordeal lasted three days
Source: Times database
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