Another Iranian Hostage Crisis?

Looks like the Iranians got themselves a few British hostages this time (the link has a good roundup of reactions and reports). This is just so brazenly provocative towards England, I just cannot make any sense out of it. What are these people thinking? Especially dangerous is that this might exactly be the provocation the Bush administration is looking for to strike at Iran.

Think about it - if I were the Bush admin, I have a war in Iraq going badly, I have an ally in England trying to drop off from my war, I suspect Iran could be causing a lot of my problems in Iraq - this is the perfect excuse to not only strike back at an enemy, but to also turn British opinion and force against Iran.

Either the Iranians were incredibly stupid with this decision or incredibly foolhardy - something tells me they might have been both when they did something this open. I have a feeling at the end of the whole thing, Ahmadi-whats-his-name would have wished he had just stuck to organizing conferences for Holocaust deniers and weird fashion. He might have grossly miscalculated this decision.