Ah! Mark Steel! As ever right on the nail!
Apparently whether or not the gunboat was in Iranian waters is and always will be very difficult to prove. Apart from being a hotly contested boundary, it's also a shifting one (something to do with tides; some big wig from the Navy was talking about it on Newsnight) so it could well be that quite genuinely both sides were getting their knickers in a twist over nowt. Bloody glad it's temporarily sorted though, I must say. I hope now that Iran have made their point and that Blair has taken it on board (no naval pun intended there!) I hope.
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