Britain Engineers Iranian Crisis

The current crisis over the captured British naval personnel by Iran has been engineered by Britain. The aim is to test the US administrations resolve on Iran and even to pressurise it into a miscalculation. This is because the overt hostility between the US and Iran is a manufactured reality. Iran and the US have covertly worked together in the region since the Iranian revolution in 1979 for which there are ample concrete evidences. After the elimination the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, the US has left the area clear for Iranian expansion, a situation which Kissinger tried to develop in the 197o's. Iran being a Shia state will be used to counteract the potential risk of regime collapse in the Sunni world and the emergence of a Caliphate. Building an arc of Shia influence in the whole region through Iran is thus a pr-emptive policy by the US. Britain has provided the key hurdle to this policy by consistently disrupting any attempts at overt US-Iranian detente by creating multiple international crisis such as the Salman Rushdie Affair and heightening other issues such as the nuclear standoff. Thus in the current crisis, Craig Murray the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan has clearly pointed out, there is no agreed definition between Iraq and Iran on the line of international waters. So the argument of international waters does not stand.There are many other questions on the position of the British vessel which do not add up. The subsequent internationalisation of the issue is however a continuum of Britains realpolitlick towards disrupting US plans and weakening her position in the region.

30.03.07