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The Financial Times is reporting that the Iranians are considering charging the 15 British naval men they are currently holding hostage:

Tehran has also said it might charge the 15 British personnel it seized on Friday with illegally entering its waters. Saturday’s UN resolution bans arms exports by Iran and freezes the assets of more than two dozen entities and individuals, including Iran’s Bank Sepah and commanders of the Revolutionary Guards, the elite force that the UK says was responsible for capturing the British personnel.
On Monday, Brent crude futures rose 73 cents to a three-month high of $63.70 a barrel on the International Petroleum Exchange in London. US crude prices rose 59 cents to $62.87 a barrel.

Manouchehr Mottaki, Iran’s foreign minister, said on Sunday charges against the sailors were “under consideration under the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran”. Margaret Beckett, UK foreign secretary, spoke by telephone with Mr Mottaki in New York in the highest level contact between the two sides over the crisis. Ms Beckett stressed the UK personnel had been in Iraqi waters at the time of their capture and repeated demands that they be given consular access and immediate release. A UK official said Mr Mottaki gave no commitment.

Show trials, imagine that. It’s not something the average British subject has seen in, oh say - the last 100 years – if not longer.