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The British sailors and marines being held in Iran are to be paraded on television - but the female sailor who was captured could be released "today or tomorrow."
Turkish TV has quoted the Iranian foreign minister as saying Faye Turney could be freed within hours.
And an Arabic Iranian broadcaster says it will show footage of the captives on television.
The news comes after Tony Blair said the time had come to "ratchet up the pressure" on Iran.
Earlier the Ministry of Defence released evidence that the 15 captive sailors and marines were in Iraqi waters when they were snatched.
And Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced that all official business with Iran had been suspended until the crisis was resolved.
The captives seized on Friday include married mother-of-one Mrs Turney, 26, and 21-year-old Paul Barton.
GPS evidence released All 15 British personnel were detained at gun-point after they boarded a dhow carrying suspicious cargo off the coast of Iraq.
The sailors and marines have now been held in an unknown location for five days, but are said to be being treated humanely.
At a news conference the MoD said the British boarding vessel was 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi territory when it was seized - and revealed the exact co-ordinates of the event to back up its claim.
Vice Admiral Charles Style said the MoD "unambiguously contested" Iran's claims that the boarding party had strayed into Iranian waters.
He said their capture was "unjustified and wrong," and said they were "ambushed."
But a statment from the Iranian embassy to Sky News said the sailors had strayed "0.5km deep into the Iranian waters.
"The sailors illegally entered Iranian waters. Violation of international border and their intrusive act justified their detention," the statement said.
Map released by MoD Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Blair said: "There was no justification whatever for their detention. It was completely unacceptable, wrong and illegal.
"It is now time to ratchet up the diplomatic and international pressure in order to make sure the Iranian government understands their total isolation on this issue."
And in a later statement to the Commons, foreign secretary Margaret Beckett said: "We have no doubt of the facts, or of the legitimacy of our requirements."
Admiral Style said the co-ordinates had been confirmed publicly by the Iraqi foreign ministry, and that the Iranian government had provided Britain with two different positions for the incident - the first placing it within Iraqi waters.
"We pointed this out to them on Sunday in diplomatic contacts," he said.
"After we did this they then provided a second set of co-ordinates that places the incident in Iranian waters, over two nautical miles from the position given by HMS Cornwall and confirmed by the merchant vessel.
"It is hard to understand a legitimate reason for this change of co-ordinates.
"In any case we unambiguously contest both the positions provided by the Iranians," he said.
Turkish TV has quoted the Iranian foreign minister as saying Faye Turney could be freed within hours.
And an Arabic Iranian broadcaster says it will show footage of the captives on television.
The news comes after Tony Blair said the time had come to "ratchet up the pressure" on Iran.
Earlier the Ministry of Defence released evidence that the 15 captive sailors and marines were in Iraqi waters when they were snatched.
And Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced that all official business with Iran had been suspended until the crisis was resolved.
The captives seized on Friday include married mother-of-one Mrs Turney, 26, and 21-year-old Paul Barton.
GPS evidence released All 15 British personnel were detained at gun-point after they boarded a dhow carrying suspicious cargo off the coast of Iraq.
The sailors and marines have now been held in an unknown location for five days, but are said to be being treated humanely.
At a news conference the MoD said the British boarding vessel was 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi territory when it was seized - and revealed the exact co-ordinates of the event to back up its claim.
Vice Admiral Charles Style said the MoD "unambiguously contested" Iran's claims that the boarding party had strayed into Iranian waters.
He said their capture was "unjustified and wrong," and said they were "ambushed."
But a statment from the Iranian embassy to Sky News said the sailors had strayed "0.5km deep into the Iranian waters.
"The sailors illegally entered Iranian waters. Violation of international border and their intrusive act justified their detention," the statement said.
Map released by MoD Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Blair said: "There was no justification whatever for their detention. It was completely unacceptable, wrong and illegal.
"It is now time to ratchet up the diplomatic and international pressure in order to make sure the Iranian government understands their total isolation on this issue."
And in a later statement to the Commons, foreign secretary Margaret Beckett said: "We have no doubt of the facts, or of the legitimacy of our requirements."
Admiral Style said the co-ordinates had been confirmed publicly by the Iraqi foreign ministry, and that the Iranian government had provided Britain with two different positions for the incident - the first placing it within Iraqi waters.
"We pointed this out to them on Sunday in diplomatic contacts," he said.
"After we did this they then provided a second set of co-ordinates that places the incident in Iranian waters, over two nautical miles from the position given by HMS Cornwall and confirmed by the merchant vessel.
"It is hard to understand a legitimate reason for this change of co-ordinates.
"In any case we unambiguously contest both the positions provided by the Iranians," he said.