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Iran takes three royal navy vessels
Topic Started: Jun 22 2004, 12:07 AM (264 Views)
pressureoverload
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http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,405...55E1702,00.html

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1140060,00.html
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3 boats crewed by 8 men eh? Sounds like RHIBs, probably special forces.
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Iran's looking for trouble I tell you.

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Actually the sailors were delivering patrol boats to the Iraqi military. The problem with that is the boats strayed in to the Shatt al-Arab waterway, a point of contention between Iran and Iraq, which actually lead to the Iran-Iraq war in the 80's.
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This is good news-



Eight British servicemen held in Iran have been freed.

British diplomats met the group in south-west Iran and travelled with them by plane to the British embassy in the capital Tehran.


The embassy is British sovereign territory.

Iran detained the men after their patrol boats strayed into Iranian coastal waters close to the Iraq border.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the men are in good spirits and well cared for.

Mr Straw said he couldn't say why it took so long to secure the men's release. "These things do sometimes take time," he told reporters in Downing Street, but he was confident that diplomatic relations with Tehran remained intact.

He said the return of the men's equipment, including three boats, was "the subject of further discussions".

Diplomats from the British embassy in Tehran had visited the men in the remote south-western town of Bandar Mahshahr where they have been held since their arrest on Monday.

There had been hopes that they would be released yesterday, but the on-off plans for the handover appeared to have hit an last-minute hitch.

The men were pictured on state television blindfolded again, walking in a line along the shore of the Shatt al Arab waterway.

The row had threatened to develop into a full-blown diplomatic crisis.


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