A blog posting by Britain's former Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, raises some serious questions about the map presented by Tony Blair's government in their dispute with Iran.

But there are two colossal problems.

A) The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only Iraq and Iran can agree their bilateral boundary, and they never have done this in the Gulf, only inside the Shatt because there it is the land border too. This published boundary is a fake with no legal force.

B) Accepting the British coordinates for the position of both HMS Cornwall and the incident, both were closer to Iranian land than Iraqi land. Go on, print out the map and measure it. Which underlines the point that the British produced border is not a reliable one.

If Murray is right, then it makes one wonder if this whole thing was created by the Bush/Blair alliance to provoke a war with Iran. Bush and Blair have no credibility and neither does the militant, fundamentalist regime in Iran.

If we see a Bush/Blair attack on Iran, we will know that those unfortunate British soldiers were ordered into Iranian waters. One can only hope that this does not happen.