The Ministry of Defence issued data it said proved the navy group seized by Iran had been 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters.
Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff, Vice Admiral Charles Style, gave detailed co-ordinates which he said proved that. The co-ordinates were 29 degrees 50.36 minutes north, 048 degrees 43.08 minutes east. BBC
there are two colossal problems.
- A: The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only Iraq and Iran can agree their bilateral boundary, and they never have done this in the Gulf, only inside the Shatt because there it is the land border too. This published boundary is a fake with no legal force.
- B: Accepting the British coordinates for the position of both HMS Cornwall and the incident, both were closer to Iranian land than Iraqi land. Go on, print out the map and measure it. Which underlines the point that the British produced border is not a reliable one.
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