Iran refused to free the British soldier due to the "wrong attitude" of London to the situation

The General Secretary of the Supreme Council of the National Security of Iran Ali Laridzhani said on Thursday that the British soldier Fei Terni, who was detained with the other 14 British military border guards for violating the border with Iran in the Persian Gulf, will not be released , Interfax reports.

Iran released the second letter of Fei Terni and the capture of the capture of British sailors

According to Laridzhani, this decision is caused by the "wrong attitude" of the British authorities to the current situation. Prior to this, he announced on television today that if London will continue to “escalate the hype” around the detention of 15 British troops, this could postpone the liberation of a little woman, ITAR-TASS reports.

At the same time, Iranian television announced that British sailors could be released only after the UK officially admits that they were in the territorial waters of Iran.

Recall that on Wednesday Iranian television showed video frames with detainees. On them, Fei Terni, the only woman of the detainees, said that the British violated the Iranian border (photo) . Before demonstrating the recording, Tehran announced that on Wednesday or Thursday, he might let go of the 26-year-old thorny.

Laridzhani also stated that “the problem of detaining British sailors, legal evidence is necessary to determine the correctness of the specific side in this incident.” According to him, "the British knew that in this case the truth would be revealed, namely, the penetration of British military personnel into the territorial waters of Iran." Only this, Larijani believes and explains London's desire to "inflate the scandal around this situation and exert political pressure on Iran."

The current statement of Laridzhani has already been regarded in London as the refusal of Iran to succumb to the pressure, which is now being on Tehran Great Britain and its closest allies.

On Thursday, London directly accused Tehran of falsifying the coordinates of the detention site of British sailors. The constant representative of Great Britain at the UN stated that the coordinates of this place, originally called the Iranian side, differed from London released on the basis of the data of the satellite navigation system, but still belonged to the point located in Iraqi territorial waters.

“Only after we stated that we consider the detention of sailors illegal, the Iranian government changed the coordinates, and they began to comply with the point in Iranian waters,” emir Jones said before the start of consultations in the UN Security Council for the British -Iranian conflict.

In turn, the representative of the Iranian Navy command said on Thursday that the coast guard recorded cases of repeated violation by the British sailors of the state border before they were detained.

According to the Iranian official news agency IRNA with reference to the source in the Iranian Navy, the British sailors, before the detention, invaded the territorial waters of Iran six times. According to the source, evidence of this is the data of the global positioning system (GPS) installed on the detained British boats.

On Thursday, the conflict spread to the territory of Iraq. The Iran’s consul in the Iraqi Basra accused the British soldiers of invasion of the consulate building. According to Mohammed Reva Nazir, the British soldiers surrounded the consulate, penetrated inside and remained there for 10 minutes. “At the same time, a strong shootout arose,” Interfax quotes him. In his opinion, we are talking about a provocation, possibly associated with the detention of Iran, 15 British military sailors.

The British command rejects these accusations. According to his version, the motorized patrol underwent shelling in front of the consulate. The soldiers opened fire, but did not leave the cars and did not enter the consulate.

The day before, London went to an open aggravation of the conflict with Iran. On Wednesday, the British Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett announced "freezing bilateral business ties with Iran" until all 15 British military sailors are released.

At the same time, the official representative of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday that his country was not looking for confrontation with Iran in connection with the capture of 15 troops in the Persian Gulf. “We want the permission of this,” the representative said. “We do not want confrontation and strive to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.”

The fate of the British sailors also became one of the meetings of the UN Secretary General Pan Hi Muna with the Foreign Minister Iran Manuchekhr Motaki in Er-Riyad in the "sidelines" of the Mezharabsky summit.

According to the official representative of the Secretary General, "the conversation that is still ongoing is devoted to discussing a number of aspects, including the problem of captured British." Other details of this meeting were not disclosed.

At this time, the Foreign Ministry of France demanded from Iran the speedy liberation of British sailors. The ambassador of Iran to France Ali Ahani was summoned on Thursday to the French Foreign Ministry, demanding a "speedy" liberation of British sailors. The Iranian ambassador was expressed by the “lively concern” of the French authorities with this situation, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the French Foreign Ministry.

“We recalled our solidarity with the British and asked the Iranian authorities in the shortest possible time of detained sailors,” the press secretary of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. “In anticipation of liberation, Iranians should allow the prisoners to visit.”

The incident with the detention of Iranian border guards of 15 British troops in the Persian Gulf of Persian last Friday provoked a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. Tehran insists that the sailors were in the Iranian territorial waters 500 meters from the border and demands to recognize this fact from London. Great Britain denies this, claiming that the capture of the Kingdom's subjects was carried out at a point that is located in Iraqi waters in 1.7 sea miles from the Iranian sea border.