The Iranian navy detained up to 15 British troops today in the Persian Gulf, a Pentagon official said. The British military confirmed there was an “incident” in the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq after Iraqi fishermen said they had seen several British and American military personnel being seized by an Iranian ship. “There has been an incident somewhere in the north of the Persian Gulf,” British military spokesman Major David Gell said in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, but said he did not know whether British soldiers were involved. An unnamed fisherman told the Reuters news agency that...