As negotiations over the 15 captured Brits were going on, an Iranian diplomat, who had been kidnapped in Iraq a couple of months ago, was suddenly freed and returned to his embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday.

That diplomat, Jalal Sharafi, the second secretary at Iran's mission in Baghdad, is still not sure who kidnapped him. He was snatched off the street on February 4th, in broad daylight in a predominately Shiite, middle class neighborhood...