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To: isopatch who started this subject	6/21/2004 1:32:42 PM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) of 108697

Royal Navy boats 'seized by Iran' (Filed: 21/06/2004) British military forces have admitting losing contact with three Royal Navy patrol boats following reports that Iran seized the vessels in waters dividing Iran from Iraq. HMS Brocklesby on patrol in the northern Persian Gulf last March Capt Donald Francis at British headquarters in Basra, southern Iraq, said: "Three small Royal Navy patrol boats and eight crew have been out of communication since the early hours of this morning. "Their last known location was in the vicinity of the Shatt al-Arab waterway." Earlier the state-run Al-Aram satellite station in Iran reported that three boats were seized in Iranian territorial waters in the Shatt al-Arab waterway and that eight crew had been arrested. A Ministry of Defence spokesman said the crews had been delivering the boats to the new Iraqi Riverine Patrol Service. He added that Foreign Office officials is liaising with the Iranian government to establish whether the crews are from the Navy and the circumstances in which they were detained. An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said that the crew was now being questioned. "Interrogation of those detained will continue until the matter is clarified," he was quoted as saying by the main Persian language television station. British forces using fast patrol boats have been involved in anti-smuggling operations in the Shatt al-Arab. The waterway has long been a major smuggling route for oil being illegally exported from Iraq as well as a crossing point for militants opposed to the American-led occupation. Relations with Tehran have been strained recently after Britain, together with France and Germany, tabled a highly critical resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency condemning Iran's failure to co-operate with international inspections of its nuclear programme.

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