![]() ![]() Nicholas Burns, the undersecretary of state, said in testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “ We are not there to provoke any military conflict. Separately, the US said on Thursday that two aircraft carrier groups were in the Gulf not to provoke Tehran but to reassure friendly governments in the area. Turkey maintains good relations with Iran and the West. The Iranian president also reportedly accused Britain of using propaganda in the case rather than trying to solve it through diplomatic channels. The channel said Ahmadinejad would consider the Turkish request. Meanwhile, Iranian state television reported that Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, had urged Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, to allow Turkey access to the seized troops and to free Turney. “The wrong behaviour of those who live in London caused the suspension,” he said, adding that Britain must apologise for entering Iran’s waters and promise it would not happen again. But on Thursday Alireza Afshar, the Iranian military commander, said her release had been “suspended”. ![]() Iran had said on Wednesday that it would free Turney soon. “This blatant attempt to use leading seaman Turney for propaganda purposes is outrageous and cruel.” The captured British servicemen were from Margaret Beckett, the British foreign secretary, responded in a statement: “We have not seen this letter but we have grave concerns about the circumstances in which it was prepared and issued. It called for British forces to withdraw from Iraq. Even through our wrongdoing, they have still treated us well and humanely, which I am and always will be eternally grateful,” Thursday’s letter said. “Unfortunately during the course of our mission we entered into Iranian waters. Iran has shown the prisoners on television, and on Thursday distributed a second letter purportedly from the only female captive, Faye Turney, confessing to entering Iranian waters.īoth letters were in stilted English, with unusual phrases that linguistic experts said appeared to have been translated from Farsi into English. “This is not a situation that can be resolved by anything other than the unconditional release of all our people.” What we can’t do is say there’s some kind of quid pro quo or tit-for-tat that goes on. “What I’m afraid we can’t do is end up in negotiation over hostages. “Obviously I felt the same way most people do, which is a sense of disgust that people would be used in that way,” he told ITV news on Thursday. Tony Blair, the British prime minister, said he was disgusted by Iran’s treatment of the prisoners. “The British may prefer diplomacy … but they don’t like being humiliated” Produced by the non-profit media ministry, Mars Hill Productions, The HOPE is an epic overview of THE GREATEST STORY ever told. ![]()
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