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As Obama Gave State Of The Union, Iran Was Holding Captured US Military Personnel
Two small U.S. Navy vessels were in Iranian custody, but their crews were to be released promptly, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Consider the irony of it. As US President Barack Obama gave his last and hopefully final State of the Union address tonight, he touted his nuclear accord reached with the terror-supporting nation of Iran last year. But what he didn’t tell you was that, at the very moment he was speaking, Iran had captured 2 US Navy vessels along with a 10 member crew of US sailors and was “holding them for questioning”.
Memo To Obama: Another name for “captured military personnel” is hostages.
And as of this writing at 11:00PM EST, they are still being held. Hope you enjoyed Obama’s fictional address this evening.
Washington Post: The boats were en route from Kuwait to Bahrain when they disappeared from the Navy’s scopes. A senior administration official said that, following communications between Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the State Department believed the situation had been resolved and that release of the sailors was expected “in the next few hours.”
Kerry “made the case very strongly” to Zarif that the incident had stemmed from a mechanical problem aboard one of the boats, and that they appeared to have drifted into Iranian territorial waters. Small American naval craft frequently patrol the waters of the Persian Gulf just beyond Iran’s territorial limit.
Zarif asked for more information about the incident, which the State Department later communicated to Iran. Zarif, the official said, “came back and said they were all safe and sound, that nobody was hurt,” and that Iran would “return them promptly.”
A third U.S. defense official said it was too early to say what exactly took place and how the American crew and vessels were “picked up” by Iran. He said the American craft and their crew were taken during the incident to Farsi Island, an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf where Iran maintains a military base. source
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