"On March 31 the President of the United States made a statement pertaining to the 15 British sailors and marines unfortunately detailed in Iran: "The Iranians must give back the hostages. They're innocent. The Iranians took these people out of Iraqi waters. It's inexcusable behavior."
But since the American people don't trust George W. Bush, let's seek a second opinion. A credible authoritative one.
Let's ask the top Iraqi military officer in charge of guarding the Shatt al-Iraq waterway where the Brits were actually apprehended. This man is working for the U.S.-backed regime and probably not inclined to make up stuff to embarrass the U.S. president, who gives him his paycheck. So his opinion should be relevant here. Let's ask Brigadier General Hakim Jassim."

"GPS positioning maps and coordinates found aboard of the two invading UK boats are evidence the British SAS special forces were inside Iran's territorial waters when they were arrested.* The UK's psyop plans apparently were the usual: invade and create terror, bomb, kill and/or destroy whatever is planned, than get out again and blame the other side. In short: with another false flag operation further create a pretext to invade and/or start a war with Iran. The illegal invasion has put the US/UK war machine in a bad spot and critical voices are getting louder and louder.
Two years ago UK Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, the former Chief of the Defence Staff and the (misguided) man who led Britain's armed forces into Iraq warned lying UK politicians like Tony Blair and the London warlord's Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, that they will join the admiral and British troops among the accused in the courts when the military will be prosecuted for war crimes in amongst others Iraq.* The illegal invasion of Iran by the US and UK and further war preparations and threats again brings court cases after accusations closer they think apparently."

"The Bush administration continues moving closer to a nuclear attack on Iran, and we ignore the obvious buildup at our peril.
Russian media is sounding alarms. In February, ultra-nationalist leader Vladimir Shirinovsky warned that the US would launch a strike against Tehran at the end of this month. Then last week, the Russian News and Information Agency Novosti (RIA-Novosti) quoted military experts predicting the US will attack Iran on April 6th, Good Friday. According to RIA-Novosti, the imminent assault will target Iranian air and naval defense capabilities, armed forces headquarters as well as key economic assets and administration headquarters. Massive air strikes will be deployed, possibly tactical nuclear weapons as well, and the Bush administration will attempt to exploit the resulting chaos and political unrest by installing a pro-US government.
Sound familiar? It's Iraq Déjà vu all over again, and we know how well that war has gone."

"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Sunday that though Iran voluntarily implemented the Additional Protocol for two and a half years to prove its good will to Europe, the country's nuclear installations were sealed.
"How does a country which itself violates law expect us to give up calling for our legal right."
"Our nuclear activities are conducted according to NPT regulations, according to which we are entitled to have nuclear fuel cycle," he added."

"United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has once again voted to impose yet another sanction on Iran for its failure to suspend a legal activity allowed by the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty [1], to which Iran remains a signatory state, and that the IAEA itself has found no indication of any nuclear material being diverted to military purposes.
As in case of the UNSC resolution 1737 [2] approved in December 2006, the United States has played a key roll in draft of the language used and the push for its passage, in a continued effort to lay the ground for a planned military action against Iran."

"The timing of the recent incident in which 15 British sailors were arrested by Iran at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway for purportedly entering Iranian waters couldn't have been more provocative if it had been planned that way. And perhaps it was. The question is, however, who did the planning?"

"Iran, seeking to avert new U.N. sanctions, said it would make proposals to the U.N. Security Council which will include a previous suggestion that Europeans invest in the nuclear industry.
"In the past we have made some good proposals to the Europeans. They did not give the necessary attention to this affair. We proposed the creation of a consortium. We invited the Europeans to join our programmes, for fuel production in Iran," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in comments aired on Friday."

"As the launching of the Iraq War marked its fourth anniversary on March 19, it is worth remembering that during the lead up to the invasion a number of conservative evangelicals voiced their support for the war: Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, maintained that Bush’s action met criteria for a just war; the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents several dozen denominations encompassing more than 30 million American evangelical Christians, openly supported the war; Mike Evans, who heads the aggressively pro-Israeli Jerusalem Prayer Team, pointed out that war with Iraq could be a “dress rehearsal for Armageddon,” the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
These days, while the Bush administration and beltway neoconservatives doggedly crank up the volume against Iran, they are again being joined by several notable conservative Christian evangelical leaders."

"Speaking before members of the military on Wednesday, President George W. Bush outlined his new strategy for containing Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The details of the plan involve using repeated threats of military action against the Islamic Republic, in order to establish the grounds for multiparty talks aimed at expanding the threat of force.
“It’s just like Teddy Roosevelt said,” Bush told the soldiers at Fort Meade’s Boot Camp Orientation Day ceremonies. “You gotta use the stick, and then the carrot. But the carrot’s lead, you see? That’s the major thing. That’s called ‘diplomacy.’”
The “lead carrot and stick” policy was reportedly the result of a compromise hammered out last weekend between Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice."

"The five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, have drawn up a draft resolution setting out a new sanctions package designed to put pressure on Iran over its nuclear programme."

"Even as the UN Security Council debates a punitive new resolution against Iran, the Bush administration is threatening to impose unilateral sanctions against foreign corporations and banks engaged in investment and trade with Tehran. The measures to cripple the country economically are accompanied by ongoing US military preparations in the Persian Gulf for an attack on Iran."

"Iran, the last remnant of the Persian Empire, is presently threatened by the greatest super power in history – the Unites States of America. The conclusion of this article is that, instead of attacking Iran, the United States should immediately reestablish diplomatic relations, negotiate unconditionally, and ensure Iran's protection from armed attack by Israel or any other nation under a comprehensive policy that seeks to avoid the expansion of nuclear weapons to Iran and all other nations and to disarm all nations within ten years. To arrive at this solution, we and those who purport to lead us must appreciate the history of the Iranian people and have a clear understanding of the facts leading to this crisis."