my favorite recent highlights:

- UK releases GPS data confirming that soldiers were indeed in Iraqi waters, iran retaliates with their own data that comically places the soldiers in Iraqi waters as well, Iran then releases a second set of data placing the soldiers in their waters.

- Iran was supposedly going to release the female soldier but now claims until the UK admits their troops were illegally operating in Irans waters noone goes home.

Iran is trying to play politics their way. They have a history of kidnapping as a means for political action and its not working, the international community is on one side and iran is on the other. i seriously dont understand where they thought this was a good plan. Iran is running around calling everything everyone does illegal and yet 90% of their actions go against that of the rest of the world.

And the big difference between this time and in 04 when iran took soldiers is that this time the revolutionary guard is the government, not simply a militia style group of thugs.

This is def going to get ugly if it doesnt end soon.