How I know Blair faked Iran map

How I know Blair faked Iran map
By CRAIG MURRAY, Former Ambassador to Uzbekistan and Head of the Foreign Office's Maritime Section
Last updated at 11:44am on 1st April 2007


Like most senior Royal Navy officers, Commodore Nick Lambert has great reserves of professional expertise and common sense. The Coalition task force commander was aboard HMS Cornwall when 15 Royal Navy personnel serving on the frigate were seized at gunpoint by Iranian forces on March 23.

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But what about the map the Ministry of Defence produced on Tuesday, with territorial boundaries set out by a clear red line, and the co-ordinates of the incident marked in relation to it?

I have news for you. Those boundaries are fake. They were drawn up by the MoD. They are not agreed or recognised by any international authority.

To put it at its most charitable, they are a potential boundary. It is accepted practice, where no boundary exists, to work by a rule-of-thumb idea of where a boundary, based on a median line between the two coasts, might be.

But to elevate that to a hard and fast boundary, and then base a major international incident on being a few hundred yards one side or the other, is out of order.

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But the No10 spin doctors stepped in, seeing a propaganda opportunity to portray Blair as fighting evil Iranians.

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The guy they gave the Matthew Dowd treatment to (poor guy, it's a tragedy, he's simply gone mad you see, mad). Seriously though, sounds like the guy knows what he's talking about... and Blair has not been nearly as shrill in the last few days. Probably got told there was no way they'd get their people back if he didn't shut up and let the professionals do their jobs.

and still have five from the diplomatic corps.....no one seems to know where they are.

That's very illegal, by the way. So where do the US and GB get off?

the Iranians will be submitted to "accept" keeping 1 barrel of crude out of 5 until the day they'll have none left. That's what this criminal cabal is all about.

may they burn in hell for eternity.

assuming the map I saw was correct, and,
assuming the UK's fix was correct.

the ship would be on land, southwest
of the shippimg channel, at extreme low tide..

the extended boundries, although in dispute,
make no difference here.