Posted on 01/14/2016 7:04:08 AM PST by skimbell
Less than a day after 10 U.S. Navy sailors were detained in Iran when their boats drifted into Iranian waters, they and their vessels were back safely Wednesday with the American fleet.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tapped the personal relationship he has formed with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif in the three years of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, speaking with him at least five times by telephone. Kerry credited the quick resolution to the "critical role diplomacy plays in keeping our country secure and strong."
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'Oh lookie!!! The Iranians only kept our guys hostage for a day.'
Somethings really fishy with this. From the video I've seen the U.S. boats are pretty well armed. The Iranian boats that I saw in the video looked like the kind of boats you see guys using to fish for Tarpon in Key West. How the he11 do they just capture a couple of US Naval vessel in fishing boats?
Doesn't look like a whole lot of "international cooperation" to me.
What is majorly fishy is that we have not been told why they were captured. What happened that caused their capture.
We also do not know if they returned the boats.
Something majorly fishy here.
Like our drone that suddenly landed safe in Iran in December 2011, I think this op went exactly as planned by our country’s Number 1 Enemy.
Boats and crew returned. That john f’n kohn-heinz-kerry (VN war hero) is amazing isn’t he. Supposedly strayed a mile into Iranian waters. Did one boat break down? Did the second boat have any line on board to tow the other one? All pretty weird.
Like they were going to hold them hostage for 444 days and risk another Reaganesque dope-smack.
Obama/Kerry are going threw with the Iran deal no matter how many people it kills
Looks like they were attacked by a bass boat.
It would be interesting to know their standing orders. It would be interesting to know their standing orders and what they were instructed to do in situations like this. My guess is that it all leads back to Obama.
“”John Kerry tapped the personal relationship he has formed with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif in the three years of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, speaking with him at least five times by telephone””
Now that’s what I call a great PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP - it only took FIVE TELEPHONE CALLS. Next time I call a friend for a favor and it takes 4 more calls for them to comply, that friendship is over! Don’t they (Kerry and obozo) ever get tired of playing us for suckers?
No word of what prompted this....
Released in LESS than a day... wow!
Yep this was all a dog and pony show.
Considering that GPS was developed for the military, how would they go anywhere by accident?
Compare this to the Hainan Island incident where China held Americans for an extended period and when they did release them they made Bush pay room and board, and a hefty fee for shipping the aircraft back to the US.
In that case, the US aircraft was in China's EEZ, which is legal under LOST.
In this case with Iran, the boat was in Iran's territorial waters, which is a violation of LOST.
The irony of it is that the US and Iran are 2 of only a handful of nations that haven't ratified LOST. Those that oppose the US ratifying LOST always say that we have the world's most powerful navy so we can use gunboat diplomacy in situations like this.
This is how adversaries are treated. Didn’t we just sign a big agreement with Iran? The one that we absolutely had to have? It was so important that Congress wasn’t even allowed to vote on it?
So why are they still treating us like adversaries? (rhetorical)
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