Iran holds British sailors hostage

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Neither of those two sources have supported your claim. They both say the confrontation was diplomatic (i.e. The US and UK didn't take on a 'warmongering' stance) and that there was no outright victor, and I didn't see them say that Bush and Blair were made to look like fools. Although the Al Jazeera article does say that Iran got more out of it and their arguments admittedly do make sense (but I think one could equally well argue that the UK got more out of it).

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To its credit, Britain was cool, calm and diplomatic from the start. But at the beginning the US DID make some threatening war-mongering noises. I would have loved to have been privy to Blair's communiques with Bush at the time -
PSSST Hey - it's OUR people at risk ! What do you think you're doing ? We just want them back. Oh, and we're not going into Iran with you either. So back off, pipe down and let us handle it.

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Iran 'dramatically' increases uranium enrichment as nuclear bomb fears grow

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/06/iran-increases-urani
um-enrichment-nuclear-bomb-fears/

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