I get a feeling that some people are feeling a bit let down by the fact that this has been sorted out peacefully. No torture, no prisoners in orange jump-suits with bags over their heads. And now they are going to be home for Easter. These Iranians clearly don't know how these things are supposed to be done.

I'd not be the least surprised to find out in the course of time that we were being lied to about the actual facts of this case. As for the question about who was lying, and who (if anyone) was telling the truth, I'm not holding my breath to know either way.

Meanwhile God knows what is happening to the Iranians seized by the Americans, and held somewhere in defiance of the wishes of the Iraqi government.