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M. Ahmadinejad's - aka the New Easter Bunny - Gift

Speaking at a news conference, it was just finished a few minutes ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he will pardon and set free 15 British sailors and marines being held in Iranian custody. "British troops granted pardons and will get presidential amnesty" (Ahmadinejad).

And just few days ago Iranian ("anti-imperialist") student activists were displaying in Tehran very "interesting, imaginative" ideas how to solve the problem:

Related:

☞ Iran to release British sailors (Guardian)

Actually, according to CNN, they are already released and tomorrow they will fly back home.. (4:50 pm, CET)

BTW.. I don't believe the int'l, especially the British and US explanations for the latest developments: the "increasing int'l pressure on the regime in Tehran"(*). I just think that the entire development of the "hostage" (G.W. Bush) crisis - from the beginning until the end - was a perfect PR coup, created by the Iranian gov't.. (eh~ that's just my opinion!!).

* "We still don't know whether the Iranians received something in exchange, secretly, but what we saw openly is certainly significant. British Prime Minister Tony Blair simply threatened Ahmadinejad and his evil state that Britain would adopt harsher measures if the captives are not released within 48 hours.
And there you have it, despite the Iranian arrogance and all the big talk, the Iranian president caved in. Apparently he had no interest in getting entangled in a British military offensive or economic sanctions.", Uri Orbach wrote in his very strange, but also interesting (because it shows the way of thinking in important circles of the ruling class!!) article (☞ Winning war on evil) in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth. 

Haehae~ here's just another related article:

☞ US tried to abduct senior Iranian officials (Yedioth Ahronoth/IL, 4.03)