By Andrew L. Jaffee

If Iran’s government had even the slightest bit of common sense, it wouldn’t be kidnapping British soldiers inside of Iraq’s territorial waters — on the eve of a UN vote to impose tougher sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program, no less. Guess what? “The top UK diplomat at the UN has said a new Security Council resolution on Iran has been agreed and is expected to go to a vote on Saturday.”

Undoubtedly, the weak hand in the West will blame Britain for provoking the poor Iranians, whitewashing the fact that Iran’s mullahs have promised to “wipe Israel off the map,” and chant mantras like “all of us should mobilize to kill.” Iranian President Ahmadinejad has threatened the U.S. with “harm and pain” and is obsessed with ushering in the end of times. Iran’s rockets already threaten most of Europe, not to mention all of the Middle East. Minor details…

The experience of Brits captured in 2004 by Iranian “Revolutionary Guard” provides some scary insight into the mindset of the Islamo-fascists. One of the former hostages:

…told of a terrifying mock execution they were subjected to in the desert.

“We were in our cell, then we were moved out on to transport, blindfolded, driven around,” he said.

“Then we got off, still blindfolded, told not to do anything or say anything. Told to put our hands on our heads then on the shoulders of the guy in front.

We walked slowly into the desert and down into a ditch where we stood and waited to see what would happen.

“Thankfully they didn’t fire. We didn’t know what was going to happen. We thought there was a good chance we could have been shot then.”