re news that i missed in article c vext lxn bony bony com jake bony bony com jake livni writes in article may ncsu edu hernlem chess ncsu edu brad hernlem writes in article optima cs arizona edu bakken cs arizona edu dave bakken writes in article c mm a kb bony bony com jake bony bony com jake livni writes in the ny times on sunday may in an article on somalia a reporter writes but last year iran quietly took over four islands belonging to the united arab emirates and deported their people with hardly a protest from the united states does anyone know what this is referring to i seem to have missed it spiked no doubt there was something in the nyt and other sources about this for a few days it is an ongoing border disupute and when the iranians kicked out the uae people it was briefly reported this was many moons ago i don t recall reading of any public us comment if it were a strong protest i probably would have seen it those islands would be abu musa and the greater and lesser tunbs i presume i don t know about a fourth the latter two islands belong to iran and so according to the ny times the islands belong to the united arab emirates jake livni the ny times is in error this is not simply my opinion even the arab sources that i use do not make this claim this of course is assuming that the ny times was refering to the islands that i named above of those islands only abu musa has been in dispute and iranian occupation of that island predates the existence of the uae brad hernlem
