Do you believe the UK's account of events over the Iran incident?

I have just heard that the captured sailors are NOW saying they were captured, stripped naked, locked in pitch-black stone-clad rooms and went through psychological "torture" with guns being cocked, etc.

Do you believe this really happened, or do you, like me, believe that the UK's MOD has told them that if they dont say these things (which they did in a press conference) they would face jail?

Its just, if their treatment was harsh in the slightest, surely they would NEVER have been as composed as they all seemed throughout the whole ordeal. Why all the smiles, laughs and as$ kissing if you were being "tortured" by your captors like this?

Or do you think Iran did "torture" them like this, and the images you saw on TV (chess, good food, tailored suits, booty bags) were all a charade?

Finally, do you reckon they should NEVER have admitted their guilt - assuming they DID go into Iranian waters? Should they have said absolutely nothing??

Comments and suggestions??

I believe them and faced with the conditions they were apparently under i too would have done anything that they (Iran) said in fear of my life.

although saying that i wouldn't put myself in that position anyway so i do find it hard at times to sympathise with people who get taken hostage unless they are innocent civilians

i dont fink u can trust any one in terms of the government. All politicians are greedy, they will tell us anythin just to get votes! But then again i wud never trust sumone from the middle east. ( i fink thats were iran n dat is lol)

not heard the latest, but I did wonder if they were forced to say those things whilst under capture, or said it to stay on the right side of the captors. usual rule of thumb surely would be never admit liability?

I believe them.

I take it you have never been in the forces.

From the start I've been abit suspicious. I mean we had Blair come on to national t.v and say our people were in Iraqi waters. But lets be honest, Blair isn't the most reliable truth telling guy is he. Cash for honers, Weapons of mas destruction, Hospitals are getting better. The list goes on.
As for the captured sailors saying these things I kinda feel maybe there's a film in it, And there sexing it up abit. It all seems a bit iffy to me.

yes i do

The problem is Mr B Liar has told so many porkies over the last 10 years I do not believe anything he says.

I bet the sailors were leaned on to give the political story
B. Liar wanted.

What bribe has been given to the Iranians in return for releasing them so B Liar can look all statesman like and take the credit? We may never find out!

Of course I believe them. Don't you remember how the Iranians treated the hostages in the 1980's for over a year? The soldiers said what they said under pressure and the world knows it.

It amazes me that so many want to believe the Iranians. They are proven liars. The even deny the Holocaust so why should I believe them now?

This account sounds a lot more believable than the pally pally one given out by the Iranians. If you were treated like that, of course you go along, Its called survival. Remarkably all those who have claimed Khalid Shaikh Muhammad's confession was invalid due to torture, he would admit to anything, seem to be crawling out from under their stones and now claiming that anyone tortured would not confess. Just goes to show they are terrorist patsies.

Hmmmmm, who to believe....
Do I believe the word of one of the most evil, corrupt, lying two-faced, war-mongers of the last 100 years?
Or do I believe president Ahmadinejad?
Personally, I wouldn't trust either of 'em to tell me the time....

Difficult one this. I do believe that they had been subjected to psychological torture of some kind, because, I did detect a look of fear, particularly on the face of one of the sailors just before they were about to be apparently released. He looked about very nervously as though he didn't really trust-believe what was happening.

Also, in this feminised country of ours, armed forces personnel taken prisoner are trained not to escalate the situation by being difficult and uncooperative. In the past, it was always name/rank/serial no. and no cooperation with the enemy.

I do think that the get togethers all happy and smiling were a charade, I don't think that they were as happy as they appeared. As there isn't an agreed borderline between Iraq/Iran on the seaward side, I think that it is very unlikely that they strayed so far as to make it very obvious that they were in Iranian waters. Anyway, the international rules state that they should have been ordered out of Iranian waters, not arrested and detained as a first course of action.

There is no doubt that Britain was humiliated over this incident, and I can understand why one might be tempted into thinking that they had been told to state that they had been tortured, in order to present a more favourable impression of their behaviour, and to justify the Liberal softly softly policy expected of captives by the British Armed Forces.

Hmnn.... we were also told that Iraq had WMD and to date nothing has been found. So it's understandably hard to believe anything that escapes this government into the public clutches.

No I don't believe this story, I do believe Iran captured and held them as part of a bigger picture that you and I and the rest of the 'idiotic public' will never know. There was a deal done behind closed doors that I'm sure of.

I don't believe the brittish government, not the Iranian government.

No

well at first they were saying how well they were treated and then after being back in the UK for a day or so they all of a sudden changed their story..... hmmmmm interesting.... I also believe they have been told to do so from their government who probably listened to america's government.. USA/UK the 2 thorns in everyone's side........ both are LIARS

Not especially

Anyone who believes the Iranians didn't give them a hard time is very naive.