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NAME: UK IRAN INTVS 20070409I TAPE: EF07/0420 IN_TIME: 10:48:51:07 DURATION: 00:02:38:15 SOURCES: VARIOUS DATELINE: Various, Recent RESTRICTIONS: See Script SHOTLIST: AL-ALAM - No Access Iran ++ AP TELEVISION CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION OR DATE OF AL-ALAM AUDIO AND VIDEO ++ Location Unknown, Iran - Date Unknown 1. Various shots of captured British sailors playing table tennis 2. Captured sailors, including Leading Seaman Faye Turney (on right), sitting in room ITV - NO ACCESS UK ++++CLIENTS MUST ON SCREEN COURTESY "TONIGHT - ITV"+++++ London, UK - 8 April 2007 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Leading Seaman Faye Turney, British Navy: "And then you have got the guys who were like, 'do you want to see your daughter again?' And that's the way they kinda like used that against me, and that was horrible. Question: "They actually said that to you? 'Do you want to see your daughter again?'" "Yeah, 'do you want to see your daughter again? Do you want to see her soon? Start co-operating with us.' And that was the point where I shut off from them, I was like, I'm not playing your games, you're sick. I'm not playing it. And that was when I was like, no. So I just, everything they asked me then it was kind of 'I don't know.'" AL-ALAM - No Access Iran ++ AP TELEVISION CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION OR DATE OF AL-ALAM AUDIO AND VIDEO ++ Location Unknown, Iran - Date Unknown 4. Turney and Lieutenant Felix Carman eating 5. Turney and other crew eating 6. Sailors at table eating meal 7. Lieutenant Felix Carman smiling to camera SKY - No Access UK, RTE, CNN International Swansea, UK - 8 April 2007 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Felix Carman, British Navy: "The pictures of us being happy, that's genuine happiness. We had been in solitary confinement for the previous 9 days and to be reunited, to have a game of chess or to play table tennis was absolutely fantastic for us. So they are genuine smiles." AL-ALAM - No Access Iran ++ AP TELEVISION CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION OR DATE OF AL-ALAM AUDIO AND VIDEO ++ Location Unknown, Iran - Date Unknown 9. Carman and another sailor speaking to camera and smiling (no audio of their conversation) 10. Various of captured sailors sitting in room SKY - No Access UK, RTE, CNN International Swansea, UK - 8 April 2007 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Felix Carman, British Navy: "People are starting to realise that what we went through was actually quite an ordeal and I think it's good that the truth has come out." AL-ALAM - No Access Iran ++ AP TELEVISION CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION OR DATE OF AL-ALAM AUDIO AND VIDEO ++ Location Unknown, Iran - Date Unknown 12. Pan from sailor Arthur Batchelor laughing to others sitting on floor 13. Pan from group of sailors seated on floor to two of them playing chess 14. Chess board 15. Various of sailors in room STORYLINE: One of the British sailors detained by Iran for nearly two weeks said on Monday, that she was threatened with the possibility of not seeing her daughter again. "You have got the guys who were like, 'do you want to see your daughter again?' And that's the way they kinda like used that against me, and that was horrible," Leading Seaman Faye Turney, 25, told Britain's ITV "Tonight" programme. "That was the point where I shut off from them, I was like, I'm not playing your games, you're sick," she added. Turney's comments come as the released sailors and marines faced criticism after pictures of them laughing and playing games were aired on Iranian television on Monday. One of the sailors, Lieutenant Felix Carman told British broadcaster Sky News, that they were all genuinely happy in the pictures. "We had been in solitary confinement for the previous 12 days and to be reunited, to have a game of chess or to play table tennis was absolutely fantastic for us," said Carman. He went on to say that people have started to realise that "what we went through was actually quite an ordeal," and that he was glad "the truth has come out." The 15 British Navy personnel were captured in the Persian Gulf on March 23, and freed last week by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called their release a gift to Britain. Iran said the British crew was in its waters, but Britain denies the charge. Iran says the latest video footage refutes claims by the sailors and marines that they were mistreated. The footage comes three days after several of the crew told reporters they had been blindfolded, isolated in cold stone cells, tricked into fearing execution, and coerced into falsely saying they had entered Iranian waters. The eight sailors and seven marines were released last week after 13 days in captivity. The video clips, which were aired on Iran's state-run Arabic satellite TV channel Al-Alam, showed sailors and marines dressed in track suits playing chess and table tennis. In the footage, crew members could be heard laughing and chatting, and were seen eating sandwiches and snacks. The crew reported having been under constant psychological pressure and being threatened with seven years in prison if they did not say they intruded into Iranian waters. Meanwhile, the British government on Monday temporarily banned all military service members from talking to media for payment, after withering criticism for having allowed sailors and marines to be paid large sums for their story of captivity in Iran. The announcement by Defence Secretary Des Browne will not affect any of the 15 service members who already have talked to media, a Defence Ministry spokesman said. But it will bar the others from reaching new deals with media outlets.