Pure Gall

After Iran committed piracy and God knows how many violations of the Geneva conventions (up to and including mock executions) against a Royal Navy patrol operating under a UN mandate in Iraqi waters, Tehran's ambassador to London, Rasoul Movahedian had the bare-faced nerve to demand a reward for his country's perfidy:

We played our part and we showed our good will... now it is up to the British government to proceed in a positive way.

I don't know how much oil Iran has, but one thing it will never run short of is brass.