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To: LindyBill who wrote (192729)1/12/2007 3:31:41 PM
From: carranza2  Respond to of 793838
 
I would love to hear the Iranians go on and on about diplomatic immunity.........to a right wing US president.

It is a very interesting report you cited, LB.



To: LindyBill who wrote (192729)1/12/2007 4:41:09 PM
From: D. Long  Respond to of 793838
 
Evidently, any Iranian in Iraq legally is, therefore, on a "diplomatic mission." What does that say about those Iranians in Iraq illegally... such as those four we caught in December? We're still holding two of them; the other two actually did have diplomatic immunity -- which shows the Iranians are not shy about asserting it when they can prove their case

It's very simple. Show their consular credentials. Can you really believe the military didn't clear this through our ambassador, checking to see if that post was an officially received consulate with all its attendant privileges and immunities? It's a blunder too big for me to easily believe.



To: LindyBill who wrote (192729)1/12/2007 4:59:13 PM
From: D. Long  Respond to of 793838
 
The Iraqi Foreign Minister is supposedly now saying that it was a laison office that was in the process of being upgraded to a consulate, but hadn't been approved yet.

In other words, it wasn't a consulate.