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British Sailors Freed
CBNNews.com
April 4, 2007
CBNNews.com - Good news for the 15 detained British sailors and Marines held in Iran: they are now free.
Iran on Wednesday freed the group in what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called an Easter gift to the British people.
Prime Minister Tony Blair said he bore "no ill will" toward the Iranians.
"I'm glad that our 15 service personnel have been released, and I know their release will come as a relief not just to them, but to their families," Blair said outside his No. 10 Downing St. office.
State television in Iran said that the 14 men and one woman, seized on patrol in the northern Persian gulf March 23, would leave Iran on Thursday. According to an Iranian official in London, the military personnel would be handed over to British diplomats in Tehran.
Ahmadinejad held a news conference where he made the surprise announcement, shortly after he pinned a medal on the Iranian coast guard commander who'd intercepted the sailors and marines.
Blair said, "Throughout, we have taken a measured approach -- firm but calm, not negotiating but not confronting, either."
He added, "To the Iranian people I would simply say this: We bear you no ill will."
Source: Associated Press
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