Iran holds two US Navy boats in Persian Gulf

[a7mos]

US military officials say they briefly lost contact with two small Navy craft in the Persian Gulf

Iranian forces seized two US vessels crossing the Persian Gulf it has been claimed, later reassuring American officials that the craft and their crews would be returned unharmed.
The Pentagon has said it briefly lost contact with two small Navy craft in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday but has received assurances from Iran that the crew and vessels will be returned safely and promptly.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook tells The Associated Press that the boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when the US lost contact with them.
Cook says, "We have been in contact with Iran and have received assurances that the crew and the vessels will be returned promptly."
A Pentagon spokesman said that the boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when US lost contact with them. Fox News claimed that they strayed into Iranian waters.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/12096275/Iran-holds-two-US-Navy-boats-in-Persian-Gulf.html

[Wilikon]

[Wilikon]

Top Dem: Iran's naval seizure 'endangers' nuclear deal



    “I think it endangers everything, I really do,” Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the panel’s ranking member, told the Washington Examiner.

    “I’m outraged, and Iran needs to release these people as soon as possible or else it would be unthinkable or impossible to make further progress with them on anything as far as I am concerned,” he said.



http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2580269/

[guoyu78]

this is a really really bad news, I  hope this resolve quickly!

[Wilikon]

this is a really really bad news, I  hope this resolve quickly!

At least it will be resolved in the US media quickly, so not to embarrass 0bama tonight during his live lying show...

[stevegreer]

this is a really really bad news, I  hope this resolve quickly!

At least it will be resolved in the US media quickly, so not to embarrass 0bama tonight during his live lying show...

Your post made me laugh because it is so very accurate and exactly what Barry does best.

[zenitzz]

It still does not explain why they were inside Iran's territory. If one of the were still working, they would know where they really are! They could stay in free way waters or head towards other side of the Persian gulf!!

[Gronthaing]

Top Dem: Iran's naval seizure 'endangers' nuclear deal



    “I think it endangers everything, I really do,” Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the panel’s ranking member, told the Washington Examiner.

    “I’m outraged, and Iran needs to release these people as soon as possible or else it would be unthinkable or impossible to make further progress with them on anything as far as I am concerned,” he said.



http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2580269/

Don't they have the right to seize them if the boats entered iranian waters illegally? And near an iranian military base apparently. That being the case don't see how the nuclear deal is affected. Provided the sailors are returned without problems. Looks more like people who don't like the nuclear deal are using anything as an excuse against it.

[galdur]

They´ll return them. They seem to to have drifted into Iran´s territory. It´s standard procedure to detain them there and check what they were doing. No big thing.

In the Iranians shoes I´d keep the boats. Free is always good´especially when it´s delivered on a silver plate. 

[galdur]

Or maybe I´d say

OK, here´s your sailors. I need to keep the boats for a while for investigation. You´ll probably receive the hulls in 2-3 weeks, the rest in boxes later.

[xht]

Two boats developed mechanical difficulties at the same time? One could not tow the other? And they both ran aground on an Iranian island? At 2am in the morning?

[galdur]

Two boats developed mechanical difficulties at the same time? One could not tow the other? And they both ran aground on an Iranian island? At 2am in the morning?

Yeah, yeah It´s 5,000,000 to one but that doesn´t mean that it couldn´t happen. But let´s not focus on that. The main thing is the Iranian aggression and how they´re holding those poor sailors hostage.

[xht]

Iran Releases U.S. Sailors Accused of ‘Trespassing’

TEHRAN — Iran has released two United States Navy patrol boats and 10 crew members who were described as “trespassing” in Iranian waters near a major naval base, state news media reported on Wednesday.

The Pentagon and the State Department said that one of the boats had experienced mechanical problems en route to Bahrain from Kuwait on a routine mission on Tuesday, and the Iranians appeared to have accepted that explanation.

The release was announced shortly before 10 a.m. on an Iranian state-run news channel, IRINN. “The detained U.S. Marines, after it was realized that their entry into Iran’s territorial waters was unintentional, and after the Marines apologized, were released into international waters in the Persian Gulf,” the channel reported, attributing the statement to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

The United States Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain confirmed the release, saying in a statement that there were “no indications that the sailors were harmed during their brief detention” and that the Navy would “investigate the circumstances that led to the sailors’ presence in Iran.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/world/middleeast/iran-navy-crew-release.html?ref=world

[a7mos]

So the problem was solved ?

I thought when i read the this news yesterday that there is a war will start to liberate the 2 ships Fortunately they release them peacefully 

[technology2015]

i think the big war is coming ..

[salinizm]

US military officials say they briefly lost contact with two small Navy craft in the Persian Gulf

Iranian forces seized two US vessels crossing the Persian Gulf it has been claimed, later reassuring American officials that the craft and their crews would be returned unharmed.
The Pentagon has said it briefly lost contact with two small Navy craft in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday but has received assurances from Iran that the crew and vessels will be returned safely and promptly.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook tells The Associated Press that the boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when the US lost contact with them.
Cook says, "We have been in contact with Iran and have received assurances that the crew and the vessels will be returned promptly."
A Pentagon spokesman said that the boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when US lost contact with them. Fox News claimed that they strayed into Iranian waters.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/12096275/Iran-holds-two-US-Navy-boats-in-Persian-Gulf.html

this is the exact motive for a war.. but us forces is not courageous to start this war..

[galdur]

Tempest in a teacup called off.

[moonshine1212]

Iran trust to Russia and they are playing same game because of Iran can hold US boats

[galdur]

This picture was taken five  hours into a nine-hour showing of a compilation of Ajatollah Khomeini´s speeches.

[Daniel_Th]

Iran is a joke.

They try and act like they are important, but the reality is that they are pretty weak. They simply try and do these sorts of things every once in a while so the world at least remembers them.