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This was the equivalent of listening on a police scanner and in the middle of a standoff going on your own radio on the police channel and saying "Shots fired".
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Rather like the claims initially made about the transmissions during Gaza ships incident.
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The boundary is recognized by the parties what is not recognized is where boundary currently falls
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Exactly, there is a boundary as there are two states but the location of that boundary is not established therefore the territorial claims by those two states are disputed.
The UN mandate under which the coilition remained in Iraq, and the british government and armed forces policies do not allow for operations in the disputed territory as that would be an act of aggression.
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The Treaty was between Iran and Iraq the US and the UK Etc were not participants.
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And what does the treaty say about foreign countries?
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It was not. It was just a misunderstanding.
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A misunderstanding??????
Was it what it was claimed to be? No
Did the naval personell featured make several glaringly obvious mistakes in their own transmission? Yes
Were the claims made by the DoD and Whitehouse spokesmen at the time false? Yes.
The incident was indeed a misunderstanding by the US, but its portrayal was deliberatly misleading and false....rather like the claims made by the British at the time of their incidentand indeed the claims that were found to be tantamount to lying to Parliament.
I suppose its kinda like the Tonkin incident where the only real truth in the statement given was that the USS Maddox was indeed a US Destroyer
