What burns me is the blindfolds. This is the Mad Mullahs' way of humiliating the sailors and the British in general.
The photos of the blindfolded are also for public consumption on the home front. They make the Irani government appear so in control and so macho.
Leni
Blindfolds and hoodings were also used by Coalition troops in the Gulf during 1991 and hoodings during this conflict. If you are holding a group of detainees together it is essential that they are controlled and unable to gain any mutual support from eye contact etc. I agree that those images were pure propaganda stunts for Iranian state TV.