Thanks. Let me know if you are going to be out this way. There is a chance I will be passing through Cleveland with the girls on vacation this summer.


>I hope that somewhere someone told the right people that bad behavior has consequences. London banks speak with a loud voice, quietly. London insurance underwriters equally so. No insurance, no oil out, no gasoline in ( Iran is very deficient in refining capacity and government subsidized low gas prices is the modern day equivalent of bread and corn doles for the plebes )
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>I think I told you, though, about being in the company of a Brit who was 'in the Queen's service' back in '79 when the Iranians seized the embassy in London. We were Jimmy Cartering our way through the situation in Tehran. But my Sixish friend said "Ah, Maggie will send the hard men, now" A few hours later the SAS rappelled from helicopters, blew out the walls and killed them all.
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>Both the Brits and the French ( contrary to popular impression ) still remember how to 'put a bit of stick about' or to kill a few 'pour encourager les autres' ( one good sized terror attack in France and you'll see something the Algerians and Indochinese still remember )
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>I would guess that after about the first two days the Iranians were looking for a good way to give the hostages back and hope everything blew over as quickly as possible.
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>And I'll bet there are also a whole lot of Iranians who wish the government would shut up about Holocaust denial and how sweet it would be to have a bomb.
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>( I wonder if the Palestinians have looked closely at a map and totally worked out the implications of Iran deciding Israel looked like a good nuclear target ... )
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>>Insightful comments, as always.
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>>What I am really curious about is your thoughts on a completely different topic. What do you think really happened in Iran?