Iran holding 10 U.S. sailors http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/12/politics/10-u-s-sailors-in-iranian-custody/index.html
For the fifth time in the past 37 years, Iranians have taken Americans hostage. This time ten members of the United States military were taken hostage when their ships were seized by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States and Iran have had an ongoing beef with each other since the Iranians seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 and proceeded to hold 52 Americans hostage for the next 444 days. This time the latest transgression by Iran has much greater stakes than beforehard. Not only did they kidnap our soldiers, but also have been building a nuclear program to develop nuclear weapons that they will use to attack the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia. If there is anyone who still delusional enough to buy into the Iranian claim that they are using their nuclear program for peaceful means then they must be convinced that 9/11 was an innocent aviational mishap that occurred only as a freak accident.
If the impending war between Saudi Arabia and Iran was a monunental concern, well this hostage taking must prove that the Iranians are making moves that only one would expect in a chess game.
The other errie part of this is that an Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict is a storyline out of Fallout. Fallout is the latest novel that I'm presently writing. It's a multi-pronged storyline which includes the Iran Deal gone bad, a Saudi Arabia/Iran/ISIS rivalry to take down one another while racing to see who will strike the USA and Israel first. Meanwhile the politcal and racial tensions in the US may make the nation implode from within instead of externally is the threats aren't stopped before its too late.
Tom
