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World | March 31, 2007, Saturday // 00:00
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In the first "confession" video on Iran's Arab-language satellite channel on Wednesday, the only woman among the captives Faye Turney appeared wearing a black head scarf, sitting in a room before floral curtains and smoking a cigarette. Photo by bbc.co.uk
US officials have ruled out a deal to exchange 15 Royal Navy personnel captured in the Gulf for five Iranians seized by American forces in Iraq.
State department spokesman Sean McCormack rejected suggestions that a swap could be made.
The five, believed to be members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, were seized in January in the Iraqi city of Irbil. The five Iranians were captured in a raid along with equipment which the Americans say shows clear Iranian links to networks supplying Iraqi insurgents with technology and weapons.
US officials have condemned Iran's actions and publicly supported the UK.
The fifteen British Royal Navy sailors and marines were seized last Friday 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.
Iran's TV channels broadcast footage, which showed two of the 15 detained British sailors, confessing they strayed into Iranian territorial waters.
The Foreign Office described the "confession" videos as "disgraceful exploitation".
State department spokesman Sean McCormack rejected suggestions that a swap could be made.
The five, believed to be members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, were seized in January in the Iraqi city of Irbil. The five Iranians were captured in a raid along with equipment which the Americans say shows clear Iranian links to networks supplying Iraqi insurgents with technology and weapons.
US officials have condemned Iran's actions and publicly supported the UK.
The fifteen British Royal Navy sailors and marines were seized last Friday 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.
Iran's TV channels broadcast footage, which showed two of the 15 detained British sailors, confessing they strayed into Iranian territorial waters.
The Foreign Office described the "confession" videos as "disgraceful exploitation".
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