Monday, January 31, 2005

Iran Says Seized British Boats Belong in Museum

Reuters:
Three British naval boats confiscated by Iran's military last June must go to Iran's war museum, rather than be returned as London has demanded, a senior military official has said.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized the three boats last June and arrested eight British crewmen, accusing them of straying into Iranian waters in the Shatt al-Arab waterway which divides southwestern Iran from Iraq.

The servicemen were handed over to British diplomats but the boats and various weapons and equipment they were carrying are still being held by Iran. ...