Comments on: Now THIS is escalation… http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/11/now-this-is-escalation/ I used to be in the middle, but they keep moving the line! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:04:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/11/now-this-is-escalation/#comment-53850 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:53:54 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/11/now-this-is-escalation/#comment-53850 roux - while you are correct in that a consulate is not an embassy (and oftentimes consular officials don't have diplomatic immunity), if the Iranian govt is about to fall on its own as you say, why not simply stand back and let nature take its course? ~EdT. roux - while you are correct in that a consulate is not an embassy (and oftentimes consular officials don’t have diplomatic immunity), if the Iranian govt is about to fall on its own as you say, why not simply stand back and let nature take its course?

~EdT.

]]> by: roux http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/11/now-this-is-escalation/#comment-53839 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:01:35 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/11/now-this-is-escalation/#comment-53839 Ed T. is right it's not an embassy. It is about time we went after the Iranians. BTW-The Iranian gov't is about to tumble. I give it less than a year. Ed T. is right it’s not an embassy. It is about time we went after the Iranians.

BTW-The Iranian gov’t is about to tumble. I give it less than a year.

]]> by: MinorRipper http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/11/now-this-is-escalation/#comment-53829 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:39:43 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/11/now-this-is-escalation/#comment-53829 Looks like "The Dunce" might just invade Iran and Syria while he's still in office...God help us. www.minor-ripper.blogspot.com Looks like “The Dunce” might just invade Iran and Syria while he’s still in office…God help us.
www.minor-ripper.blogspot.com

]]> by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/11/now-this-is-escalation/#comment-53823 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:15:55 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/01/11/now-this-is-escalation/#comment-53823 I don't think that the facilities used for a consulate are considered 'sovereign territory' as an embassy is, though Article 31 of the <a href="http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_2_1963.pdf" rel="nofollow">Vienna Convention on Consular Relations</a> outlines the protections due a "consular premises". I didn't see anything that specifically prohibits the guest nation from using the consulate as a based for armed insurrection (such behavior would probably considered an act of war, justifying the host nation's armed response), but the seizure of the documents and computers was very likely a violation of Article 33. ~EdT. I don’t think that the facilities used for a consulate are considered ’sovereign territory’ as an embassy is, though Article 31 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations outlines the protections due a “consular premises”. I didn’t see anything that specifically prohibits the guest nation from using the consulate as a based for armed insurrection (such behavior would probably considered an act of war, justifying the host nation’s armed response), but the seizure of the documents and computers was very likely a violation of Article 33.

~EdT.

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