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http://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-2-us-navy-boats-210513540.html
Pentagon: 2 US Navy boats held by Iran but will be returned Associated Press By LOLITA C. BALDOR 8 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran was holding 10 U.S. Navy sailors and their two small Navy boats after the boats had mechanical problems and drifted into Iranian waters, but American officials have received assurances from Tehran that they will be returned safely and promptly. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told The Associated Press that the riverine boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when the U.S. lost contact with them. U.S. officials said that the incident happened near Farsi Island, situated in the Persian Gulf. They said that some type of mechanical trouble with one of the boats caused them to run aground and they were picked up by Iran. The sailors were in Iranian custody on Farsi Island at least for some time, but it's not certain where they are now. The semi-official Iranian news agency, FARS, said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's navy has detained 10 foreign forces, believed to be Americans, and said the sailors were trespassing in Iranian waters. FARS also reported that one of the 10 sailors was a woman. "We have been in contact with Iran and have received assurances that the crew and the vessels will be returned promptly," Cook said. The incident came amid heightened tensions with Iran, and only hours before President Barack Obama was set to deliver his final State of the Union address to Congress and the public. It set off a dramatic series of calls and meetings as U.S. officials tried to determine the exact status of the crew and reach out to Iranian leaders. Secretary of State John Kerry, who forged a personal relationship with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif through three years of nuclear negotiations, called Zarif immediately on learning of the incident, according to a senior U.S. official. Kerry "personally engaged with Zarif on this issue to try to get to this outcome," the official said. Kerry learned of the incident around 12:30 p.m. EST as he and Defense Secretary Ash Carter were meeting their Filipino counterparts at the State Department, the official said. The officials were not authorized to discuss the sensitive incident publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity. The incident came on the heels of an incident in late December when Iran launched a rocket test near U.S. warships and boats passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Iran is expected to satisfy the terms of last summer's nuclear deal in just days. Once the U.N. nuclear agency confirms Iran's actions to roll back its program, the United States and other Western powers are obliged to suspend wide-ranging oil, trade and financial sanctions on Tehran. Kerry recently said the deal's implementation was "days away." ___ Associated Press writers Matthew Lee and Bradley Klapper in Washington and Nasser Karimi in Tehran contributed to this report. |
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What will Oblowme cost us this time when he willingly trades 5 Al Qaeda generals for a stinking deserter? |
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What will Oblowme cost us this time when he willingly trades 5 Al Qaeda generals for a stinking deserter? We will probably get five gallons of boat fuel and get to keep the can. |
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Obama will probably give some weapons grade Uranium.
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Wonder if they could use a few million refugees? Barry can deliver them personally...... |
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Iran releases U.S. Navy sailors Tom Vanden Brook and Jim Michaels, USA TODAY 33 minutes ago Iran said Wednesday that it released the 10 sailors from two small U.S. Navy boats who were detained Tuesday after crossing into Iranian waters, the state-affiliated Islamic Republic News Agency said. The sailors were taken to international waters and freed there, IRNA said. The Pentagon confirmed the release and said there were no indications the sailors were harmed during their detention. A U.S. Navy boat conducts an exercise in the Arabian Sea on June 12, 2012. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said he was pleased the sailors “have departed Iran and are now back in U.S. hands." “I want to personally thank Secretary of State John Kerry for his diplomatic engagement with Iran to secure our sailors' swift return,” he said. Earlier Wednesday, General Ali Fadavi, a naval commander for Iran's Revolutionary Guards, accused the U.S. military of acting in an "unprofessional" manner. He said that the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier made provocative "maritime and aerial" moves after the U.S. sailors were seized Tuesday. انتشار نخستین تصاویر از دستگیری تفنگداران دریایی امریکایی pic.twitter.com/KSNWEiaKgl — روزنامه شرق (@SharghDaily) January 13, 2016 Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the boats entered Iranian territorial waters illegally. U.S. military officials told USA TODAY the boats drifted into Iranian coastal waters in the vicinity of Farsi Island in the north Persian Gulf, apparently after one experienced mechanical problems and the other attempted to render aid. The two boats were traveling from Kuwait to Bahrain. The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the incident publicly. Iran's Fadavi said the two U.S. combat vessels had entered into Iran’s territorial waters because of a failure in their navigation systems. The incident threatened to be a key test for Iran-U.S. relations following a nuclear deal in which the U.S. and other world powers agreed to lift international sanctions in return for Iran reducing its nuclear program. Relief from the sanctions could begin as early as this week. The Iranian seizure is the latest flare-up in an increasingly tense relationship. The U.S. military released a video Saturday showing what it says is an Iranian military vessel firing several unguided rockets near, but not at, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, other warships and commercial craft. That incident occurred Dec. 26 in the Strait of Hormuz. The images show what appears to be an Iranian Revolutionary Guards vessel firing rockets from about 1,500 yards, or less than a mile. USA TODAY Video shows Iranian rockets launched near U.S. carrier Iran’s aggression will take center stage Wednesday at the Supreme Court in Washington. The justices will hear arguments that hundreds of victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism and surviving family members should win access to about $2 billion in frozen assets of Iran's central bank. Among them are relatives of 173 of the 241 servicemen killed in the 1983 bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut. It was carried out by the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, but federal courts in the United States held Iran responsible. Now the high court must decide if Congress overstepped its bounds by passing a law specifically designed to resolve the standoff over the frozen assets. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/01/13/us-sailors-remain-iranian-custody/78727580/ |
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Seems the present POTUS needs a Prescription for a Pair!
 
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Hope the Navy next time thinks twice about rendering assistance to Iranian Sailors!
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Seems the present POTUS needs a Prescription for a Pair! I am biting my tongue.  For now...
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didn't even mentioned them in his Address last night?
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/iran-confiscates-gps-equipment-from-seized-navy-boats-says-it-will-prove-that-the-american-ships-were-snooping
Iran confiscates GPS equipment from seized Navy boats, says it will “prove that the American ships were ‘snooping'” January 12, 2016 7:19 pm By Robert Spencer And in a few days, Obama will give them 100 billion dollars.(OH JOY! ) “Iran Holds Two U.S. Navy Boats After Mechanical Problems, Officials Say,” by Helene Cooper, New York Times, January 12, 2016: WASHINGTON — The crews of two small United States Navy patrol boats were picked up by the Iranian authorities in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday after commanders lost contact with the vessels, and Pentagon officials said that Iran had agreed to return the sailors soon. An official said that the boats appeared to have drifted into Iranian territorial waters after one of them experienced mechanical problems. The boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when contact was lost late in the afternoon, a Defense Department official said. The Pentagon said they had been on a routine training mission, but those waters are a frequent location for intelligence collection by the United States, Iran and many Gulf countries. A senior military official said he expected the sailors to remain held overnight and be released on Wednesday. The detention of the 10 sailors comes at a particularly delicate moment in the tense American-Iranian relationship, just days before the formal implementation of a nuclear deal in which the United States is supposed to unfreeze about $100 billion in Iranian assets in return for the disablement of critical nuclear facilities…. Secretary of State John Kerry, an official said, was notified of the seizure of the sailors while meeting with top Philippine officials and Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter. Mr. Kerry broke off the meeting and called his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, with whom he spent months negotiating the nuclear accord. Many American and Middle Eastern officials believe that recent actions by the Iranian Navy against American forces in the Gulf may be intended to embarrass Mr. Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps was responsible for the military side of the nuclear program, and many of its senior officers have objected to the nuclear agreement. The semiofficial Fars news agency in Iran said that the boats had illegally traveled more than a mile into Iranian territorial waters near Farsi Island, in the Persian Gulf, which is the home of a major Iranian naval base. It said that forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Navy had confiscated GPS equipment, which would “prove that the American ships where ‘snooping’ around in Iranian waters.” But an American official said that military and diplomatic contacts with the Iranians had been professional, which he credited to the stepped-up engagement over the nuclear accord…. |
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SassyEuro2
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Wed 01/13/16 11:45 AM
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Seems the present POTUS needs a Prescription for a Pair! I am biting my tongue. For now... U.S. Navy Captain's Apology To Iran http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/iran-asks-apology-sailors-detained-gulf-article-1.2495135/ US captain apologizes for making mistake by entering Iran waters http://youtu.be/WRSP0hklnak/ |
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 On our knees before Iran......thats what happens when Mom Jeans is in charge:  |
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This Iran captured two US Navy ships/boats stinks like a red herring... Just saw footage of Iranians showing the IDs of captives - US passports?
WTF... Our military has biometric ID cards... You would never go on ops with your F ing passport. There is fu**ery afoot here brothers & sisters. CORRECT....just seen that; very suspicious; passports were kept back @ home or sometimes in the way back golden olde days back safe @ main HQ .....! I didn't use my passport either. me too; as above , you just carried your own military ID, whatever branch you were in; never your country's passport for obvious reasons ! It's a civilian doc, so there's something non military going on there Like · Reply · 2 · 2 hrs Benghazi 2.0 Posts on FB |
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This Iran captured two US Navy ships/boats stinks like a red herring... Just saw footage of Iranians showing the IDs of captives - US passports? WTF... Our military has biometric ID cards... You would never go on ops with your F ing passport. There is fu**ery afoot here brothers & sisters. CORRECT....just seen that; very suspicious; passports were kept back @ home or sometimes in the way back golden olde days back safe @ main HQ .....! I didn't use my passport either. me too; as above , you just carried your own military ID, whatever branch you were in; never your country's passport for obvious reasons ! It's a civilian doc, so there's something non military going on there Like · Reply · 2 · 2 hrs Benghazi 2.0 Posts on FB  I am biting my tongue. For now... 
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5 hours ago
Iran releases captured U.S. Navy crew members - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/13/iran-sends-mixed-message-on-quick-release-of-u-s-navy-crews/ "Crew is shown kneeling on the deck with their hands behind their heads. Other images, broadcast by Iranian state television, included the sailors sitting on the floor in a carpeted room, and an apparent Iranian official examining their American passports." 
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WORLD Iran releases U.S. Navy sailors Tom Vanden Brook and Jim Michaels, USA TODAY 33 minutes ago Iran said Wednesday that it released the 10 sailors from two small U.S. Navy boats who were detained Tuesday after crossing into Iranian waters, the state-affiliated Islamic Republic News Agency said. The sailors were taken to international waters and freed there, IRNA said. The Pentagon confirmed the release and said there were no indications the sailors were harmed during their detention. A U.S. Navy boat conducts an exercise in the Arabian Sea on June 12, 2012. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said he was pleased the sailors “have departed Iran and are now back in U.S. hands." “I want to personally thank Secretary of State John Kerry for his diplomatic engagement with Iran to secure our sailors' swift return,” he said. Earlier Wednesday, General Ali Fadavi, a naval commander for Iran's Revolutionary Guards, accused the U.S. military of acting in an "unprofessional" manner. He said that the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier made provocative "maritime and aerial" moves after the U.S. sailors were seized Tuesday. انتشار نخستین تصاویر از دستگیری تفنگداران دریایی امریکایی pic.twitter.com/KSNWEiaKgl — روزنامه شرق (@SharghDaily) January 13, 2016 Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the boats entered Iranian territorial waters illegally. U.S. military officials told USA TODAY the boats drifted into Iranian coastal waters in the vicinity of Farsi Island in the north Persian Gulf, apparently after one experienced mechanical problems and the other attempted to render aid. The two boats were traveling from Kuwait to Bahrain. The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the incident publicly. Iran's Fadavi said the two U.S. combat vessels had entered into Iran’s territorial waters because of a failure in their navigation systems. The incident threatened to be a key test for Iran-U.S. relations following a nuclear deal in which the U.S. and other world powers agreed to lift international sanctions in return for Iran reducing its nuclear program. Relief from the sanctions could begin as early as this week. The Iranian seizure is the latest flare-up in an increasingly tense relationship. The U.S. military released a video Saturday showing what it says is an Iranian military vessel firing several unguided rockets near, but not at, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, other warships and commercial craft. That incident occurred Dec. 26 in the Strait of Hormuz. The images show what appears to be an Iranian Revolutionary Guards vessel firing rockets from about 1,500 yards, or less than a mile. USA TODAY Video shows Iranian rockets launched near U.S. carrier Iran’s aggression will take center stage Wednesday at the Supreme Court in Washington. The justices will hear arguments that hundreds of victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism and surviving family members should win access to about $2 billion in frozen assets of Iran's central bank. Among them are relatives of 173 of the 241 servicemen killed in the 1983 bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut. It was carried out by the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, but federal courts in the United States held Iran responsible. Now the high court must decide if Congress overstepped its bounds by passing a law specifically designed to resolve the standoff over the frozen assets. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/01/13/us-sailors-remain-iranian-custody/78727580/ Iran also once again violated the Geneva Convention. You an not show a captives interview on TV for propaganda purposes. It's time we stop putting up with their BS. |
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didn't even mentioned them in his Address last night? Nope, but he couldn't wait to take credit for Bin Laden. |
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