Admedinejad’s “Plan B” - The Circus Continues
By Walid Phares
With the decision to release the 15 British sailors, the Ahmedinejad three-ring circus and the mullah’s propaganda machine have produced a better end to the hostage crisis: Release them quickly and invest heavily in their merciful “liberation.” Hence the new debate worldwide is about the mullahs and […]

The Mullahs’ Next Steps
By Walid Phares
Since Day One of the planned operation to snatch British sailors from Iraqi waters, the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) “War Kitchen” in Tehran had already drawn multiple recipes for the following weeks and potentially months to come. Indeed the regime, reacting to rising pressures from sectors of its own population and […]

Timeline: UK-Iran stand-off

Fifteen Royal Navy personnel based on HMS Cornwall were seized by Iran on 23 March in the Gulf.Here are the key developments since their capture took place. 
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Iranian students throw firecrackers and rocks into the British embassy compound during a protest over the stand-off in Tehran.
About 200 people, made up of hardline Islamist […]

Royal Navy Incident: Iran’s Plan to Drag the US and the UK
By Walid Phares
The capture of British Navy servicemen by Iranian forces is not simply an incident over sea sovereignty in the Persian Gulf. It is a calculated move on behalf of Teheran’s Jihadi chess players to provoke a “projected” counter move by London and […]