British troops seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guard

[Arnfinn Madsen]

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i believe there are amiguities surrounding the 'ownership' of the waterway in question.

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I don't think there is any disagreement about the border, but parts of it follows the thalweg, so it is hard to see where it actually is. Maybe the Iranians found a place where it takes a westernly curve and arrested them or the British had found a spot where it takes an easternly curve which the Iranian soldiers were not aware of.