I wonder how the UK government would react if the Iranians holding these 15 Navy Personnel declared them to be "anti Iranian combatants". After all, such a designation has about as much legal force in international law as "enemy combatant". Could the UK really grumble if these lads were extraordinarily rendered to an area out of the way of consular access and then subjected to water- boarding that Dick Cheney described as " a dunk in water" and "a very important tool to use in interrogations"?
Or perhaps Iran may have a equivalent to Abu Ghraib or even Guantanamo Bay ?
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