Who do you think you are fooling Mr Ahmadinejad?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proved once again that he is a cunning manipulator and devious operator unworthy of leadership. The seizure of 15 British servicemen was both unjustified and in my view a calculated and strategic response to the UN voting further sanctions on Iran just last week. It has been categorically proven through satellite imagery that the service personel were in Iraqi waters NOT Iranian. I am well aware that the legitimacyand accuracy of this imagery has been called in to question but this is the fundamental problem with politics...one has to hope and believe that the higher authorities are telling the truth and if it comes to taking the British word or the Iranian the choice is pretty clear cut. Regardless of whether or not the satalite images are correct, Iran has no right to parade our troops on TV as some kind of sick glorification of this heinous crime. By forcing a British service woman to go on TV wearing the Hijab and "confess" to illegally entering Iranian waters whilst apologising to the Iranian people and glorifing them as "warm and kind hearted people" Ahmadinejad is simply trying to rally his people and show Iran has humiliated those who "humiliate" Iran. In my view Ahmadinejad is buying his time on the one hand he is making positive noises about releasing the hostages while all the while humiliating them and the United Kingdom as a whole by parading them blindfolded on TV. Manipulators like this cannot be pandered to and as Margaret Thatcher said to George Bush Snr when confronting Saddam Hussein "This is no time to go wobbly" Britain must stand firm, rally our allies in support and demand the unequivocal return of these hostages before we have to resort to more serious actions...actions which I believe would be undesirable but wholly justified.