A Happy Ending
So, in the end, President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad decides to – in his words – pardon the British soldiers allegedly trespassing into Iranian waters.
While we will never know who was right in the first place, this news is certainly a very good news to everyone especially to the families of the captured soldiers. Put it in one of the soldier’s uncle, “whoever has been in the right or wrong, the whole thing has been a political mess, so let’s just get them home.”
Some might say that his move is more of a face-saving gesture, but the fact that the President used statements like ‘in spirit of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday and Easter Holiday’ and ‘the release of the soldiers as a present to the British people’ had certainly made the Iranian President the bigger man in this conflict.
“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” – William James.
SOURCE: BBC
While we will never know who was right in the first place, this news is certainly a very good news to everyone especially to the families of the captured soldiers. Put it in one of the soldier’s uncle, “whoever has been in the right or wrong, the whole thing has been a political mess, so let’s just get them home.”
Some might say that his move is more of a face-saving gesture, but the fact that the President used statements like ‘in spirit of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday and Easter Holiday’ and ‘the release of the soldiers as a present to the British people’ had certainly made the Iranian President the bigger man in this conflict.
“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” – William James.
SOURCE: BBC
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