And Iran now says they won’t release female sailor Faye Turney, despite her admission of guilt.
In an interview broadcast on Iranian TV, Leading Seaman Turney said the group had been seized in the Gulf because they had “obviously trespassed” in Iranian waters. She said her captors had been friendly and that everyone was unharmed.
“Obviously we trespassed into their waters,” she said at one point, her voice audible under a simultaneous-Arabic translation. “They were very friendly and very hospitable, very thoughtful, nice people.” The broadcast included footage of other marines and sailors sitting in the same room eating a meal.
It also showed a letter from Leading Seaman Turney to her parents in which she said the Navy personnel had “apparently” crossed into Iranian waters, and asked the couple to look after her three-year-old daughter Molly and her husband Adam. The Foreign Office reacted furiously to the broadcast, calling the screening “completely unacceptable”.
In an interview broadcast on Iranian TV, Leading Seaman Turney said the group had been seized in the Gulf because they had “obviously trespassed” in Iranian waters. She said her captors had been friendly and that everyone was unharmed.
“Obviously we trespassed into their waters,” she said at one point, her voice audible under a simultaneous-Arabic translation. “They were very friendly and very hospitable, very thoughtful, nice people.” The broadcast included footage of other marines and sailors sitting in the same room eating a meal.
It also showed a letter from Leading Seaman Turney to her parents in which she said the Navy personnel had “apparently” crossed into Iranian waters, and asked the couple to look after her three-year-old daughter Molly and her husband Adam. The Foreign Office reacted furiously to the broadcast, calling the screening “completely unacceptable”.
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And - who knows? - maybe they'll get it.
So far Britain has conceded control of matters to Iran, and I shudder to imagine the longer term consequences. But while our media are colluding in the defensive, losing position (see here), there doesn't seem much hope of action from us.
Which, I'm sorry to say, can only end up making life harder for Uncle Sam. Gosh, how they must be celebrating in Tehran!
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