Déjà vu

The latest hostage crisis continues to unfold as I expected.

After the failure to secure UN condemnation of Iran’s action, the Times reports that the EU has refused to impose sanctions on Iran. As I've indicated many times in my posts, Iran is EU's client state. The EU is single-handedly responsible for survival and prolongation of the Islamist Iran reign of terror. Germany is Iran's largest trading partner. According to Spiegel online, forty-eight percent of Germans think that the United States is more dangerous than Iran with only 31 percent believing the opposite.

France, Iran's second-largest trading partner wants more pathetic dialogue with a bunch of politically and emotionally immature thugs who can only think of short-term solutions to hold on to power by engineering crisis after crisis since their usurpation of power in 1979.

Contrast this with the confrontational chutzpah of the Islamist Iranians (aka TAZI meaning Raiders in English; this is name given to Isamo/arabs after wiping out Iranian civilization and imposing Islam on Iranians by the sword). As the BBC reports today, Iran's ambassador to Russia has said that the British servicemen could face trial for violating international law. "It is possible that the British soldiers who entered into Iranian waters will go on trial for taking this illegal action," Gholamreza Ansari told Russian television channel Vesti-24.

Given the state of popular opinion (manufactured by disinformation and propaganda) in Iran, what do we think the outcome of such a show trial might be? As that Times piece says: "In Iran tens of thousands of football fans reportedly chanted “Death to England” while tourists burnt an effigy of Mr Blair dressed as a pirate."

In other words, our lack of will has emboldened our enemies beyond the point of considering the release of their hostages. They are now hinting at the possibility of keeping them a lot longer. Sound familiar?! They've done this in 1979 and have gotten away with it absolutely unpunished, so why stop now.

Ahmad Khatami, one of Iran's theocrats views this fiasco this way:

Today, Britain is a failed, isolated power who acts as a middleman for America. If they continue their bullying they will pay a high price. This Iran is a great Islamic and powerful Iran who is standing against America, who is the master of Britain.

Anyone still think the Iranians are intimidated by our (non-existent) "ratcheting up" of rhetoric?