U.K. Uncertain Where Iran Holds Sailors

LONDON - British officials do not know where Iran is holding 15 sailors and marines captured in the Persian Gulf, and requests for access to them have been denied, the Foreign Office said Sunday.

Iranian state television, meanwhile, said its Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador in Tehran "to protest the illegal entry of British sailors into Iranian territorial waters." It gave no details about the meeting.

The British Foreign Office said Ambassador Geoffrey Adams met with senior Iranian officials and demanded the immediate release of the captured personnel, the Foreign Office said.

Iran's top military official, Gen. Ali Reza Afshar, said on Saturday …