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Iran detains UK naval personnel
Humiliation Shame Revenge blah blah blah ... The kidnapped Marines and Sailors will be forced to apologise on national television to the insecure masses of Iran. Blair and the New Labour autocrats will downplay the whole thing as a misunderstanding and unless eveyone agrees to sanction the bejazus out of the Mullahs Iran will have nukes in about 6 years from now.
FROM IHT.com
From news article:
Iran accuses Britain of aggression
By Alan Cowell - Published: March 24, 2007
London: One day after its forces seized 15 British naval personnel near disputed waters, Iran accused Britain Saturday of "blatant aggression," further ratcheting up diplomatic tensions. Britain demanded "the immediate and safe return" of its personnel.
In Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, said the Britons — eight sailors and seven Royal Marines — had violated "the sovereign boundaries of other states," the state-run IRNA news agency said, adding that Iran was carrying out "further investigation of the blatant aggression."
Britain's Press Association news agency said one of the captured personnel was a woman, but gave no further details. Iranian news agencies said the 15 Britons had been transferred to Tehran, where a senior Iranian military official was quoted as saying they had "confessed to illegal entry into Iran's waters."
"The said personnel are being interrogated and have confessed to aggression into the Islamic Republic of Iran waters," General Ali Reza Afshar was quoted as saying by the ISNA semi-official news agency.
The incident happened near the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway along the Iran-Iraq border.
In Berlin, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said, "We demand the release of the British soldiers." He added that he was confident the United Nations Security Council would approve tougher sanctions in the nuclear dispute with Iran.
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