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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

UPDATE: Pentagon: 2 U.S. Navy Boats Held by Iran Military

UPDATE: "We have been in contact with Iran and have received assurances that the crew and the vessels will be returned promptly," Cook said.

Iranian military forces seized two U.S. Navy boats Tuesday and are holding them in custody on Iran's Farsi Island in the middle of the Persian Gulf, senior U.S. officials told NBC News.

Officials said it's unclear whether the 10 American sailors who were aboard one of the small riverine boats had strayed into Iranian territorial waters before they were captured.

The officials said the Americans were on a training mission around noon ET when their boat experienced mechanical difficulty and drifted into Iranian-claimed waters and were seized by Iranian Coast guard.

Secretary of State John Kerry has been on the phone with Iranian officials in Tehran attempting to gain the release.

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Obama will trade 100 terrorists for the boats, and leave the sailors to remain hostages.

Anonymous said...

Didn't we just make a deal with these folks? What happened to all the kumbaya? Where's the UN? Where's the president stand on this issue? It's four hours and no press conference?! LOL. Yet, if this were a shooting or something to do with guns, he would've been on the media train within ten minutes of said incident.

Anonymous said...

Iran is only giving them back Bc of the TRILLIINS OBAMA is giving them.

Anonymous said...

Deploy air strikes and put boots on the ground as soon as the Intel indicates exactly where our guys are. Iran has crossed the line one too many times. If our coward in chief doesn't make the call someone else needs to do it. Like in Benghazi

Anonymous said...

I guess there will be 10 more empty chairs at the ME, MYSELF, and I speech tonight. Anybody have a clue as to why we gave Iran $150B?

Anonymous said...

Is this not an act of war?

Anonymous said...

Valerie "The Iranian" Jarrett will call her muslim brotherhood parents and resolve this issue for panty waist Barry and haughty John Skerry

Anonymous said...

Because obama is a Treasonous Muslim to America.

Anonymous said...

I find it compelling that a country, trillions of dollars in DEBT is giving money to any other country. How does this happen?

Do we see people who are in debt on the street giving other people money?

I suspect that economics was not the POTUS's strong suit while in school! In fact, if he did take econ, which I seriously doubt, it must have been at Columbia -- a university that has no record of him being there or anyone remembering him from the old days.

Anonymous said...

Valerie jarrett is the pos ruining america.