Reply #3: Varying reports ... [View All]

What the Iranians said ...

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The Iranian TV report said an Iranian delegation headed by Ali Ahani, in charge of European and American affairs at the Foreign Ministry, would arrive in the area on Wednesday evening.
The report, quoting its correspondent, said the servicemen were from special forces in the Royal Navy, adding their three boats and equipment including satellite positioning systems, small cameras and detailed maps would stay in Iranian naval custody.
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http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=534580§ion=news


... and how the UK paints it

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Just a mile from bank to bank at its widest point, the Shatt, formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates, is split by the border between Iraq and Iraq, an invisible midpoint line established in the 1975 Algiers Agreement.

But the continuing dispute over this border helped spark the bloody Iran-Iraq war in 1980 and the boundary has not been honoured by Teheran.

There have been recent intelligence reports of Iranians firing at the new Iraqi Riverine Patrol Service.
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But the team captured on Monday were not undercover members of the special forces ...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/23/wiran123.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/23/ixnewstop.html