Iranian Seizure of Royal Navy Personnel
Brooks Newmark asks the Foreign Secretary if she thinks there is any connection between the seizure of British sailors and domestic Iranian politics.
Mr. Brooks Newmark (Braintree) (Con): I thank the Minister for her extremely thorough statement, in which she said that she was assured that there was no link at all with other issues, bilateral, regional or international. However, my concern is that the President and his party have performed extremely poorly in domestic elections recently. What assessment has she made of the connection with that particular matter?
Margaret Beckett: None, to be perfectly honest. Obviously, it is possible to speculate, but no real hints are being dropped and no demands are being made. It is said to be a one-off incident and we are treating it as such.
