Dave Gerstman e-mails:

The NY Times The dispute with Iran over Britain’s captured sailors escalated sharply on Wednesday when Britain froze all “bilateral business” with Iran, and the Iranians displayed some British prisoners on state television — an act condemned by the Foreign Office here as “completely unacceptable.” The Washington PostIran’s foreign minister said Wednesday that in order to win the freedom of 15 navy personnel seized last week in the Persian Gulf, the British government must acknowledge that the team illegally entered Iranian waters. Iranian television broadcast video footage of the sailors and marines on Wednesday, with the lone woman among them, dressed in Muslim garb, saying that the British boats had “trespassed” in Iranian waters. British Prime Minister Tony Blair condemned the video as a “completely unacceptable” parading of the British detainees, who were seized by an Iranian Revolutionary Guards naval unit Friday. Note that neither story specifes that the showing of the sailors on television possibly violated the Geneva conventions. (I searched both articles. It notes that Blair called the video “completely unacceptable,” but nothing further.)Now imagine the opposite had happened. If the Iranians had strayed to close to Iraqi waters and England chose to show videos of their sailors. Do you think that either paper would have neglected to mention “Geneva?”

He goes into more detail at his blog.