Iran to Release British Hostages - So What's the Deal?

By Andrew Cochran

President Admadinejad has announced the release of the British hostages as "a gift to the British people." The official IRNA site trumpets a medal given to the commander of the Iranian coast guards who seized the hostages. Iranian and British TV broadcast video of a short meeting between Admadinejad and the hostages.

Now it's time to figure out the elements of the deal and judge just who "won" and "lost," including inside Iran, and our Contributing Experts will contribute their opinions here and in media interviews. Here are the CT Blog posts on this crisis since it broke, in chronological order from the most recent to the first post:

A Jihadi Circus in Tehran and the 15 sailors by Walid Phares

U.N. Still Not Acting to Protect Human Rights of British Hostages and U.N. Should Demand Immediate Access to the British Hostages in Iran - my posts

Watch out for possible Hezbollah/Iran attacks in South America by Olivier Guitta

Royal Navy "incident": The larger plan of Teheran's regime by Walid Phares

Iran: Targeting the U.S.-U.K. Alliance by Aaron Mannes

Iranian Captures of British Navy Personnel: Intentional Provocation or Local Decision? - my post (first in the series)

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