Unlikely. Those riverine boats are *faster* than the Iranian boats, and there aren't any bulletholes on either boat. How do they get ambushed without a shot fired and by slower boats?! I don't see that.
Fast boats. Fast boats that were just sitting there next to Farsi Island.
Littoral boats. Littoral fast boats that weren't in littoral waters, but rather than crossed 50+ miles of blue water to get to Farsi Island where they...stopped and waited.
Why? Probably has to do with North Korea's recent nuclear test and the docking of a North Korean ship at Farsi Island.
Might be due to North Korea's recent missile test, though. Could even have been a potential NK defection via Iran's Farsi Island.
For all of the above, you'd send in a SEAL team (or a Nuclear Emergency team in one case), probably via HALO insertion...
...and you'd need an extraction team with something a bit larger than the SEALs' normal SWCC rubber rafts. Something about the size of a riverine boat or two.
And that extraction team wouldn't tow a disabled fellow riverine boat out of Iranian waters. Nope. That extraction team would sit there anchored until our infiltrators made their exfiltration.
Fantasy, Jason Bourne stuff. Sorry, I apply Occam’s Razor. Obama is so risk-averse that he wouldn’t send outside rescue to an Alamo in progress in Benghazi, lest it turn bad like Black Hawk Down. He preferred to leave 30 Americans to their chances than take a risk.
But he is sending the SEALs on secret missions, using RS boats with the standard 5-man (skeleton) crew? Sorry, I don’t buy it.
When the SEALs are being inserted/extracted, they will ALWAYS have extra SEALs on board the boats for comms and for manning up the guns, (five can’t drive the boat and do that effectively.)
These five RS sailors per boat, including a female, even had their PASSPORTS. Yeah, some “secret mission!”
They had their passports because they were being redeployed between nations in the theater.