U.K. Uncertain Where Iran Holds Sailors (AP)

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Source: Associated Press

U.K. Uncertain Where Iran Holds Sailors

By TARIQ PANJA
The Associated Press
Sunday, March 25, 2007; 8:50 AM

LONDON -- British officials do not know where Iran is holding
15 sailors and marines captured in the Persian Gulf, and
requests for access to them have been denied, the Foreign
Office said Sunday.

Iranian state television, meanwhile, said its Foreign Ministry
summoned the British ambassador in Tehran "to protest the
illegal entry of British sailors into Iranian territorial waters."
It gave no details about the meeting.

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Iran's top military official, Gen. Ali Reza Afshar, said on
Saturday the seized Britons were taken to Tehran for
questioning and had confessed to what he called an
"aggression into the Islamic Republic of Iran's waters."
He did not say what would happen to them but said all
were being treated well and were in good health.

The Foreign Office said Sunday that British requests for
access to the 15 Britons have been denied.

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