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Was Iran's Seizure of Britons Response to U.N.?

published by
National Public Radio
 on March 29, 2007

Source: National Public Radio

Iran's capture of 15 British sailors and marines is most likely a reaction to sanctions passed against Iran by the U.N. Security Council over the weekend, says Karim Sadjadpour on NPR's "All Things Considered," an Iran analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Melissa Block talks with Sadjadpour, who says he believes Iran is feeling anxious about political and economic isolation — and seizing the Britons is an attempt to push back against the West.

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