Turley's second letter

The Iranians haven't released Faye Turney yet (nor any of her colleagues, needless to say), but they have produced another letter she voluntarily wrote in her own words, she really did:

Iran's Mehr news agency quoted military commander Alireza Afshar saying Britain must apologise for entering Iran's waters and promise it would not happen again.

"The release of a female British soldier has been suspended," he was quoted as saying. "The wrong behaviour of those who live in London caused the suspension."

In the letter, whose authenticity could not immediately be confirmed, Turney said her group was in Iranian waters.

"Unfortunately during the course of our mission we entered into Iranian waters," the letter said. "Even through our wrongdoing, they have still treated us well and humanely, (for) which I am and always will be eternally grateful."

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The somewhat stilted language of the letter led some linguistic experts to suggest the text may have been written originally in Farsi and then translated into English.

Damian P.

Posted by damian at March 29, 2007 06:49 PM