Posted on 03/29/2007 5:56:24 AM PDT by UKrepublican
Sailor's Release Delayed Updated: 13:44, Thursday March 29, 2007
Britain will continue to seek United Nations' condemnation of Iran - despite an Iranian threat to delay the release of woman sailor Faye Turney.
An Iranian negotiator said the release of the 26-year-old mother would be held up if Britain took the issue of the captives being held in Iran to the UN Security Council or if it freezed relations.
Mrs Turney is the only woman in the group of 15 sailors and marines held captive since last Friday.
Yesterday the service personnel were shown on Iranian TV and Tehran said Turney would be released soon.
"If we are faced with a fuss and wrong behaviour then this would be suspended and it would not take place," Ali Larijani said on state radio.
Sky foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall said Britain would continue to pursue UN condemnation of the Iranian action.
Earlier Britain rejected a demand by Iran to admit that its sailors and marines entered Iranian waters - and Tony Blair condemned the release of the video showing the captives.
The Prime Minister said "nobody should be put in that position in terms of basic humanity."
And the United Nations secretary general got involved in the diplomatic stand-off. Ban Ki-moon held talks with Iran's foreign minister in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and Ban's spokeswoman said the detention of the Britons was among the topics they were discussing.
Iran had said consular officials could visit the 15 personnel being held captive if Britain admitted they had strayed into Iranian waters.
Armed Forces minister Adam Ingram told Sky News: "Every effort is being put into this to ensure we reach a resolution - it won't be for lack of effort on our part if we don't."
Mrs Turney's letter home Iran said when Mrs Turney was freed she would carry a letter to her parents confessing to what happened.
The video shows the group being arrested, eating food in captivity and carries an interview with Leading Seaman Faye Turney.
Turney is seen looking worried, wearing Iranian clothes and smoking. She admitted the group "trespassed" into Iranian waters.
"They were very friendly and very hospitable and nice people and explained to us why we were being arrested," she said.
Former hostage John Nichol has told Sky News that Mrs Turney was "almost certainly coerced into speaking."
As for the story itself, yet another reason to get tough and quick.
The essence of the EU: "There is no alternative, ladies and gentlemen, to negotiations and we must resume negotiations as soon as possible,'' Solana told the European Parliament.
I submit that Islamo-fascists understand negotiations as capitulation, and capitulation as weakness. They feed off of it. The EU is, at best, ignorant of the Islamo-fascist mind-set, at worst a bunch of Frenchmen and Italians. Since Germany is in there, also, and this trait would not be exclusive to them, my guess is that while EU is stalling, the under-the-table deals are being made, a la Oil-for-Food.
So, since the Security Council of the UN is EU controlled, what do we expect to happen? Iran will get progressively bolder as the UN passes it's 36th resolution without doing anything, it's member nations undermining the very sanctions it passes, until Iran or one of it's terrorist groups sets off a warhead in the greatest Islamo-facist victory since 9/11.
Put an AP or Reuters tag on that and put it on ice. It is a future front page story.
I don't know why Ms. Tunney spoke. Don't they learn, "name, rank, and serial number?" It's one thing when civilians say stuff when the are coerced, but she's a marine?
The UN would be a big help. They would talk the Iranians to death.
All the class "A" personalities have emigrated from Europe long ago.......
Continue to seek UN condemnation… WOW!!!! The terrorist rulers of Iran are really scared now and they are begging for mercy… (extreme sarcasm).
That is really pathetic, pathetic beyond belief.
We'll need time to craft a well written taunt.
Just broken on sky news that they've suspended the release of Mrs Turney.
Isn't this the chief Iranian "negotiator" who went on TV about 6 months ago laughing at Britain, France and Germany that the previous 2 years of "negotiations" had allowed Iran to advance their nuke program by 2 years without interference?
Pardon me if I had zero confidence in UK negotiations or UN resolutions.
If the UK is depending on negotiations or the UN to release these folks, they're going to be "guests" of the Iranian govt as far as the eye can see. Or the UK is going to have to give in to their preposterous demands.
Perhaps Britain should have sought League of Nations condemnation of Germany when it invaded Poland in 1939.
Translation. We Iranians took, now what are you going to give us? Then, after you tell us what you are going to give us, we know that that is just your fist offer, so we'll reject it and demand more. And, as far as the Iranians are concerned, it make for great sport and is very satisfying to see the Brits grovel. I imagine internal Iranian pole numbers are way up for the regime.
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