Iran releases own video of US Gulf incident

Iran released video and audio recordings depicting a much more sedate encounter between Iranian gunboats and U.S. Navy vessels than U.S. officials claim.

The recordings released Thursday provide an Iranian account of the confrontation Sunday between Iranian gunboats and three Navy vessels operating in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf.

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Who's Provoking Who?

WASHINGTON — Just hours before President Bush was to begin his trip to the Middle East, he sharply criticized Iran on Tuesday for fomenting “a dangerous situation” in an incident over the weekend in the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Asked whether he thought the Iranians were trying to provoke a fight with the United States by having several of their vessels confront American craft, the president said the Iranians had engaged in “a provocative act.”
“It is a dangerous situation, and they should not have done it, pure and simple,” Mr. Bush said in a brief question-and-answer session in the Rose Garden. “I don’t know what their thinking was, but I’m telling you what I think it was.”

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British Marine Admits Entering Iranian Territorial Waters

"So far, we have been treated very well by all the people here."
One of two British naval personnel arrested in Iranian territorial waters appeared in a new video aired Sunday evening said that he and 14 other British naval personnel had entered Iranian territorial waters when they were arrested. Pointing to a map of the Persian Gulf in an interview with Iran's state television, Captain Chris Air explained the way the 15 British naval personnel entered Iran's territorial waters and how they were arrested by the Iranian border guards, IRNA reported. He thanked the border guards for their good behavior. "So far, we have been treated very well by all the people here," he said. "They have looked after us and made sure there's been enough food and we've been treated very well by them so we thank them for that," Captain Air added. Speaking also in the video, Lieutenant Felix Carman, the other British marine, pointed to an area on the map to indicate the location where he and the 14 others were arrested. He said he could understand the anger of Iranians over their "intrusion" into Iranian territorial waters. Two other British naval personnel had earlier acknowledged their having trespassed Iranian territorial waters and apologized to the nation for violating Iran's sovereign right. BAZTAB – April 02, 2007

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