I think the Iranians gravely miscalculated by making that female British soldier appear on TV dressed in a Shiite black headscarf and white robe to deliver an apology that was obviously dictated and almost certainly coerced.  The British are going to go ballistic over this.

Anyone remember that video of Saddam visiting the western hostages in the run-up to Desert Storm?  Saddam made the bad mistake of sitting a British child on his knee; the child looked terrified, and the British public woke up the next morning ready for war.