Can Someone Explain What's Being Talked About Here??

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41992068
Ok I know about diplomatic immunity etc but that's for diplomats by prior arrangement. So how does it apply to misguided eejits visiting middle eastern tish holes?

[ToraToraTora]

gone a bit quiet?? I must have hit the nail on the head.

[dannyk13]

Or maybe people have just got tired.

[ToraToraTora]

reel em in!

[bednobs]

'spect it's gone quiet coz your question has been answered?

[Mamyalynne]

I'm just doing a synopsis of other Laws, working as many reptiles in as possible.

[ChillDoubt]

To digress a little, I do find it decidedly tedious that posters are censured for disguised/self-asterisked expletives, in light of some of the risqué and highly suggestive advertising at certain times on this site that has double-entendres aplenty.

Just my two pennorth worth.....

[Gromit]

It is not diplomatic immunity, it is diplomatic protection.
The British citizen becomes a state asset in effect, so the UK State can defend her as it would any other State Asset. The Iranians could of course just ignore us.

[New Judge]

The BBC article says this:

"The protection would signal that the UK is treating the case as a formal, legal dispute between the UK and Iran."

Why on earth should the UK become embroiled in a "formal, legal dispute" with Iran. Anybody going there (and she should be particularly aware having originated from there) should know that they are prone to throwing foreigners in jail on the flimsiest of evidence and with little or no justification. Presumably one of the reasons she left there was because she was none too fond of that.

Finding herself in the Chokey should thus really not take her too much by surprise. Agreed, the legal process in Iran is not quite the same as ours. But as I said in an earlier question, not everywhere in the world is like Tunbridge Wells.

[Jackdaw33]

I don't know if anyone remembers this as it was nearly 30 years ago, but Iraq actually hanged a journalist from the Guardian on the grounds that he was a spy for Iran. You wouldn't catch me within a 1000 miles of those places.

[ToraToraTora]

TBF though you don't need a reason to hang a grauniad journalist! :)

[Jackdaw33]

You may think that; I couldn't possibly comment.

[Gromit]

Farzad Bazoft worked for the Observer not the Guardian. (They were not part of the same group in 1990).

[youngmafbog]

If you ask me there is a lot more to this story than we are being told.

Iran, *** that they are dont throw every tourist into jail.