Iranian TV to show footage of detained sailors

Iranian state TV today said it would broadcast footage showing 15 captured British sailors and marines who have been in Iranian custody since last week.

The announcement by a newscaster on Al-Alam satellite TV did not specify when the video footage would be shown.

Al-Alam is an Arabic-language, Iranian state-run television station that is carried across the Middle East by satellite.

Iran had promised British officials in talks that it would not show the sailors on television as it did with a group captured in 2004 – a senior British foreign office diplomat said earlier today.