Bring Me the Head of Faye Turney
An Iranian opposition group claimed Saturday that Iran’s capture of 15 British sailors and marines was planned in advance and carried out in retaliation for UN sanctions imposed against Tehran.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran - the political wing of the Iranian MEK opposition group which is listed as a terrorist group by Britain, the US and the European Union - said the British crew’s capture was planned in advance, but offered no evidence to support the claims.
Hossein Abedini, a member of the council’s foreign affairs committee, claimed the group had obtained information from sources within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard and had passed details to the British government. He did not provide any evidence or give further details.
On the other hand, with talk like this, the story is entirely credible:
Former Iranian President Mohamed Khatami told the London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi during his visit to Egypt that “George Bush is the tyrant of our age, and history will remember him as a rare variety of murderer of children and women.”
On Iran’s abduction of the 15 British servicemen, he said: “Anyone who saw this action as inappropriate has become accustomed to seeing the Islamic and Arab world as weak, as not defending itself from harm, and as having borders that are wide open… The behavior of the U.S. and of its allies is very barbaric, and they want the Arab and Islamic world to remain weak forever.”
Don’t you just want to smack him so head wrap falls off?