[Porsche-O-Phile]

Sure they did, because they knew Bush and company would be stupid enough to believe it. Either that or there was a back room deal between the US & Russians to have them make up a story to validate the predetermined conclusion, just as was done here at home with the FBI/CIA/NSA/etc. Either way Bush had no reason to call the Russians out, since it only helped to bolster the case he was making for war.

We don't know all the facts in this Iran thing - there IS a possibility the Brits were in Iranian waters, but it's pretty damn unlikely. The Brits are EXCELLENT sailors and have navigation skills just as good or better than anyone else out there. The most likely scenario (but it is only one guy's hypothesis) is that Iran looked back to the 1979 mess with the Shah and the 444 days our hostages had to stay in the country and how successful it was in (1) embarassing the hell out of the west and (2) getting the west to leave them alone. It worked once, they're probably figuring it would work nicely again.