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Britain takes Iran to UN, woman sailor remains captive (AFP)
Filed: March 29th 2007: World

An Iranian hardline student holds an anti-British placard outside Iran's Foreign Ministry in Tehran. Britain has taken its escalating crisis with Iran over 15 captured sailors to the UN Security Council, as Tehran said it would not release the only woman among the detainees.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - Britain took the escalating crisis with Iran over 15 captured sailors to the UN Security Council Thursday, as Tehran withdrew an offer to free the only woman detainee.

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