[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by Livia

The reason the embassy in Iran was ransacked was because some Iranians were angry that the UN imposed sactions on them because of their ongoing nuclear programme. It wasn't Britain alone that imposed the sanctions, and yet British staff - mostly administrators - were attacked by a mob. Yeah, well done them, what a bunch of heroes.

I myself don't blame Haig for kicking their diplomats out of the UK the very next day.

Just the latest in a long list of things we've done to piss them off. It was partly us who was responsible for overthrowing their democratically elected and popular Prime Minister Mohammed Mosadeq in the 50's, in the 60's and 70's we supported Iran's Shah who was terrorising his people, we supported Saddam in the Iraq-Iran war, we've derided Ahmedinejad ever since he got into power and it was us who was the leading country in calling for sanctions on Iran, is it any wonder our two countries are at complete loggerheads?

Most of the "evidence" that Iran is developing nuclear weapons is dodgy and questionable, and it's beginning to resemble the build up to the Iraq war. Even if they do want the bomb then so what, everyone else in the region has one - Israel, Russia, Pakistan, India, who are we to say it's fine for those countries to have nuclear weapons and not Iran?