A news excerpt from BBC News.
The UK government has released details of where it says the 15 sailors and Marines were when they were seized by Iranian forces on 23 March.
The Ministry of Defence says the merchant ship boarded by a crew from HMS Cornwall on 23 March was 1.7 nautical miles (3.1km) inside Iraqi territorial waters. It says the master of the vessel has confirmed this.
HMS Cornwall was south-east of the merchant ship, inside Iraqi waters.
On 24 March the Iranian government told the UK - according to the UK's Ministry of Defence - that the merchant vessel was at a different location, but still within Iraqi waters.
When the UK pointed out to the Iranians that the location they had given was within Iraqi waters, the Iranians provided a "corrected" location, nearly 1 nautical mile away (1.9km) from its first position but within Iranian waters.
The UK government disputes both Iranian claims. It says the "corrected" location is more than 2 nautical miles (3.7km) from its own version, as recorded by HMS Cornwall's GPS data equipment.
The Ministry of Defence says the merchant ship boarded by a crew from HMS Cornwall on 23 March was 1.7 nautical miles (3.1km) inside Iraqi territorial waters. It says the master of the vessel has confirmed this.
HMS Cornwall was south-east of the merchant ship, inside Iraqi waters.
On 24 March the Iranian government told the UK - according to the UK's Ministry of Defence - that the merchant vessel was at a different location, but still within Iraqi waters.
When the UK pointed out to the Iranians that the location they had given was within Iraqi waters, the Iranians provided a "corrected" location, nearly 1 nautical mile away (1.9km) from its first position but within Iranian waters.
The UK government disputes both Iranian claims. It says the "corrected" location is more than 2 nautical miles (3.7km) from its own version, as recorded by HMS Cornwall's GPS data equipment.
One of the small boats used by the boarding party from HMS Cornwall had a GPS chart plotter, continually communicating its position to HMS Cornwall, where the position was displayed on an electronic chart.
The UK says the two boats were together at all times.
HMS Cornwall's Lynx helicopter had been monitoring the initial stages of the boarding of the Indian-flagged merchant ship, at 0739 local time on 23 March.
Communications with the boarding team were lost at the time the boarding ended - at 0910.
The helicopter crew returned to the scene and reported that the two boats were being escorted by Iranian Islamic Republican Guard Navy vessels towards the Shatt al Arab waterway, inside Iranian territorial waters.
The UK says the two boats were together at all times.
HMS Cornwall's Lynx helicopter had been monitoring the initial stages of the boarding of the Indian-flagged merchant ship, at 0739 local time on 23 March.
Communications with the boarding team were lost at the time the boarding ended - at 0910.
The helicopter crew returned to the scene and reported that the two boats were being escorted by Iranian Islamic Republican Guard Navy vessels towards the Shatt al Arab waterway, inside Iranian territorial waters.
Is this an Iranian reaction on UN sanctions 2 days ago? As in Iran's revolutionary guard promised a fourthcoming reaction from Iran.
Will Iran release those sailors as there are dispute in their location they were arrested? British says that they were 1.2NM inside Iraqi waters while Iranian says that they were inside Iranian waters after British pointed out the location dispute. Who was correct then? Whatever it is, why does this have to happen? Big nations doing such things? Holding 15 marines just because they trespassed your waters? Plenty of trespassing happens daily around the world. Why make such a big issue out of this? Will this end up in the Palestine and Israel conflict, where it is just because of 1 kidnapped soldier, where thousands of lives will be lost in result? Civilised nation.. I do not know any consequences of this from the point of view of a ordinary citizen. Just hope that this tension would not cause a price hike in the crude oil price in the nation, as it already show a slight increase by now..Stupid conflict..!
