Iran Detains British Sailors in Iraq Waters and they Don't even have Nukes, yet!

The NY Times:

LONDON (AP) -- Iranian naval vessels seized 15 British sailors in Iraqi waters on Friday, the Ministry of Defense said.

The British Navy personnel were ''engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters,'' and had completed their inspection of a merchant ship when they were accosted by Iranian vessels, the ministry said.

''We are urgently pursuing this matter with the Iranian authorities at the highest level and ... the Iranian ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office,'' the ministry said.

A Pentagon official said the Britons were in two inflatable boats from the frigate H.M.S. Cornwall during a routine smuggling investigation, said the official, who spoke on condition on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the incident.

He said the confrontation happened as the British contingent was traveling along the boundary of territorial waters between Iran and Iraq. They were detained by the Revolutionary Guard's navy, he said.

A fisherman who said he was with a group of Iraqis from the southern city of Basra fishing in Iraqi waters in the northern area of the Gulf said he saw the Iranian seizure. The fisherman declined to be identified because of security concerns.

''Two boats, each with a crew of six to eight multinational forces, were searching Iraqi and Iranian boats Friday morning in Ras al-Beesha area in the northern entrance of the Arab Gulf, but big Iranian boats came and took the two boats with their crews to the Iranian waters.''

The Britain government said it had demanded ''the immediate and safe return of our people and equipment.''...more

If this doesn't constitute an act of war, I don't know what does?

Roxie, as always is on top of things and does what she can as a concerned grandmother and writes to the Islamic Republic and the UNSC to voice her alarm and trepedation about the kind of world her granddaughter has to live in faced with nuclear-armed natural-born killers ruling Iran:

Roxie's letter to UN and the Islamic Republic:

To: The Iranian Government and UNSC Members and the United States Government:

Iran has committed an act of war against the British. News: "Iranian forces seized 15 British Royal Navy personnel."

It should be crystal clear to world leaders that Iran is NOT a peaceful nation. It should be clear that Iran lies to the world about being a peaceful nation. Iran’s aggressive nature, its funding, training and arming terrorists in the world combined with Indicted government officials for acts of terrorism make a granite-solid case that Iran presents a danger to the world and Iran lies about the danger.

World leaders must stop bowing down to Iran and unite to end the Iranian threat, not continue to help Iran become a nuclear bully. World leaders must not permit an aggressive, Iranian bully to get within sight of nuclear technology that can be used to create weapons. Iran has made it clear that it is an aggressive nation, a nation unwilling to act civilized.

World leaders, my granddaughter deserves a world without Iranian terrorist bullies. Please help my granddaughter by uniting together and using whatever action may be necessary to destroy the aggressive, bullying Iranian government’s danger to civilized society.