The UN Security Council has called on Tehran to allow UK consular access to the fifteen British sailors, who were captured on Friday for straying into Iranian territorial waters.

The statement also voiced "grave concern" at Iran's capture of 15 British sailors, but its wording has been perceived as a watered-down version of what the UK expected, BBC commented.

The UK wanted the statement to "deplore" Iran's detention of the Britons and call for their immediate release.

Meanwhile, Iran has released a second letter, apparently written by captured Leading Seaman Faye Turney, 26, which urges the UK to withdraw from Iraq.

A day earlier Tehran officials said Iran may delay its plan to release the one woman in a group of 15 British military personnel because of the UK's "incorrect attitude".

Faye Turney was seized last Friday by Iran along with 14 other British Royal Navy sailors and marines while conducting a routine inspection of a merchant vessel at the northern end of the Persian Gulf. Iran says they strayed into Iranian territorial waters, a claim which the UK denies.

In a video broadcast on Iran's Arab-language satellite channel on Wednesday, Turney appeared wearing a black head scarf, sitting in a room before floral curtains and smoking a cigarette. She said her group had "trespassed" in Iranian waters.

"Obviously we trespassed into their waters," Turney said. "They were very friendly and very hospitable, very thoughtful, nice people. They explained to us why we've been arrested. There was no harm, no aggression."

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