Posted on 01/13/2016 10:23:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Iran has released 10 US sailors after holding them overnight, bringing a swift end to an incident that had rattled nerves days ahead of the expected implementation of a landmark nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had freed the sailors on Wednesday after determining they had entered Iranian territorial waters by mistake.
The sailors had been detained aboard two US Navy patrol boats in the Gulf on Tuesday.
"Our technical investigations showed the two US Navy boats entered Iranian territorial waters inadvertently," the IRGC said in a statement carried by state television.
"They were released in international waters after they apologised."
IRGC Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi had earlier said that the two US Navy boats entered Iranian territorial waters due to a broken navigation system.
US Vice President Joe Biden rejected reports that Washington had offered Iran an apology over the incident.
"No, there was no apology, nothing to apologise for ... and there's no looking for any apology," Biden said on CBS's This Morning program.
The Pentagon said there were no indications the sailors were harmed while in Iranian custody.
A carefully worded statement did not explain how the sailors and their two riverine command boats ended up being detained by Iran, saying only that "the Navy will investigate t
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Someone’s not telling the truth.
Where do you see that?
One of the sailors was a woman.
What is going on here?
It certainly isn’t our government.
Iran has humiliated us, got an apology and is going to get cherries on top of the sundae with our forthcoming jiyza payment.
That how it works in Islam.
This is a no brainer.
We wouldn’t have gotten them back if the money was already transferred.
Where in the article does it specify what became of the two boats. It seems to go to great length to mention only the release of the crews.
In addition to the apology. I bet they get more money in add under the able and maybe some weapons.
And two of the others were gay, and all the rest were "of color".
Obama social-experimentation b.s. as usual. Need a real President to cancel all his garbage ... My idea would be to cancel all eight years' worth of Obozo E.O.'s in Hour One, proclaim the cancellation worldwide.
Live by the pen, die by the pen.
Obviously they're keeping the boats.
The US is saying that there will not be a formal apology.
Ah. Key word is “formal.” I see.
How stupid of me. It all makes sense now.
So what? The Iranians get to keep their war booty, they forced our sailors to grovel on their state TV and they reduced a superpower to a humiliating low.
Keep in mind Obama said in his SOTU last nite we’re respected by the world.
Do the pictures coming out of Iran look like respect?
It does seem very, very strange.
But then the Iranian capture of our most advanced UAV, intact, with no attempt made to destroy it, seemed very strange too.
As did the shipment of a Hellfire missile to Cuba.
All of these things seemed very, very strange.
And not a single oversight committee on Capitol Hill interested.
Too many more important things to attend to, like attacking Donald Trump and reaching out to illegal aliens.
We apologized, but once the Iranian video was released showing their humiliation, we say we didn’t apologize.
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