Charley - I didn't say that all Iranians are arseholes, just that certain powerful Iranians are Arseholes. I stand by that.

What's clear is that the religious-nutcases that run the show in Iran are absolutely determined to use this incident to 'prove' to the ordinary people of Iran who live in abject fear of them just how 'powerful' they are. They will continue to lie through their teeth until they've wrung the last ounce of profit from what was, and should have been treated as, a very minor incident.