From – the – Washington Post, Karla Adam:
LONDON, April 7 — An Iranian official said Saturday that allegations of mistreatment from a British naval team seized last month in the Persian Gulf were unfounded and stage-managed.
“The mistreatment of the sailors is a lie,” said Ali Akbar Javanfekr, Iran’s presidential press adviser, according to Agence France-Presse. “By dictating certain statements made by the freed troops, the British authorities are seeking to improve their situation and diminish the pressure of British public opinion.”
The British sailors and Marines must be lying. Mistreatment of prisoners would be a violation of the Geneva Conventions. And we all know Iran would never violate the Geneva Conventions by such acts as putting prisoners on public display.
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If the world doesn’t accept Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his word, he can always ask the International Red Cross inspectors to testify as to the conditions of the British prisoners.
(H/T photo: Telegraph(UK))
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