Trespassers not Guests

After the release of the British Royal Navy and marines – in an unexpected situation by Iranian Fundamentalist government and its so-called hard-liner president – some very astonishing incidents took place. They started from a prefabricated interview with six of captives where they were reading from papers and continued to let them sell their stories, which now Britain has banned over some new pictures and videos from Alalam News Channel. Therefore surprising comments were born.Primarily I can divide those remarks into two different ones while they have been born due to the same reason and from the same source. The first were those which mentioned they have not entered Iranian territorial water and have further said they have to stay seven years in prison if did not confess entering Iranian territorial water. In addition, the woman among them has said that her letter was a trick to do what Iranian officials wanted and not her personal beliefs saying, “I never meant a word of it.” These sets of notes could be classified as political ones.

The other set are the military ones, which have been said about their arrests, and the things happened during the thirteen days, such as; those who were arrested were blindfolded, were separated from each other in the first 5 days, or were given filthy blankets.

For the first set, although I believe that the Iranian government should have done better to remove any possible discrepancies, public opinion of the world is aware of the things happened and the British play. Nevertheless, I would like to say some points regarding the second set of words.

According to the confessions of British Royal Navy and marines, none of them has mentioned any torture. Therefore, I think its time to ask, are blindfolding, giving filthy blankets and separating captives are not from the rights of the government who is hosting some trespassers into its water? So what are the rights? Do you think a group questioning would be a better case? How about a restaurant, a coffee, and then letting to ask some questions? Do you think they should have been given clean blankets? So the question is, were they in hotels? So how about a shower and a laundry? Alternatively, they were captives and the story is a different one. On the other hand, if you still think there are no rights for Iran to behave like that, now answer this question. Do USA, NATO, and their allies behave like as the trespassers ask for? In order to answer this question, its better to visit Guantanamo or some other hidden prisons all over the world to see what the truth is.

Ironically, an Iranian diplomat (Jalal Sharafi, the second secretary at Iran’s embassy in Baghdad) was kidnapped and serving an unknown fate while British Navy and marines were given suits, some books and CDs, and were red-carpeted by Iranian officials. Furthermore, five of other diplomats are still lost, where every day Molly was watching her mom (Faye Turney) on TV or Royal Navy Lieutenant Felix Carman’s mother was watching his son. Surprisingly, even the Red Cross does not know where the Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped by the US are. Note that Mr. Sharafi has been severely tortured and it was confirmed by Red Cross rep in Iran and Iraqi ambassador to Tehran. He is now recovering in a hospital in Iran.

I think it is better to end up the text with quoting some notes from a British Blogger: “Unlike our own brave servicemen and woman, who had to endure the indignity of not washing for days, having to sleep on dirty blankets and being called names, Sharafi instead allegedly had the soles of his feet beaten with cables, as well as having his ankles drilled, wounds which have partially healed as they were inflicted at the beginning of his captivity. His back was also slashed, and he claims that his nose was broken. An official from the Red Cross confirmed that his injuries had been inflicted during his detention. The United States has denied that it had anything to do with the apparent mistreatment, despite Sharafi’s claims that an official connected with the US embassy was present during some of his interrogations, hilariously welcoming his release and return to Iran. One thing’s for certain though: he sure won’t be getting £100,000 in return for telling everyone “the story from his side, to see what he went through.”