Iran's Top Nuke Negotiator: Seizure of 10 U.S. Sailors 'a Sign of Our Might'

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Bitch slappin the obomanation...still gets BILLIONS of Dollars!

PJ Media ^ | January 14, 2016 | Bridget Johnson
Iranian officials stressed that they taught the U.S. a lesson by seizing 10 sailors from two boats in the Persian Gulf.The semi-official Fars News Agency reported Wednesday that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Secretary of State John Kerry that the U.S. needed to apologize before the sailors were released. According to a statement from Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, "the Americans have extended an apology," Fars said.Zarif tweeted today: "Happy to see dialog and respect, not threats and impetuousness, swiftly resolved the #sailors episode. Let's learn from this latest example."Washington denies any "official" apology was offered. Iran broadcast a video...

 

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Iranian capture of sailors 'doesn't add up'...

Ex-Navy SEAL lawmaker: Iranian capture of sailors 'doesn't add up'
1/26/16 - The public story about how 10 U.S. sailors fell into Iranian custody two weeks ago "doesn't add up," according to the only former Navy SEAL serving in Congress.

"It doesn't add up to me that somehow two boats are stranded within the territory of Iran waters," Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., told the Washington Examiner in a Tuesday interview. "There's a lot of questions out there that we have and I think Congress and the American people should know the answers." Secretary of State John Kerry touted the release of the sailors, who were detained for 16 hours, as a testament to improved relations between the United States and the Iranian regime. But while U.S. officials say the combination of a navigational error and engine trouble is what let the boats drift into Iranian waters, Zinke, who concluded a 23-year naval career in 2008, said he can only think of two possible explanations — either a failure of the sailors to execute "basic seamanship," or some as-yet-undisclosed Iranian belligerence.

"It seems to me that a number of very straightforward planning considerations either weren't planned, or the plan wasn't followed," he said. Zinke said it shouldn't be possible for a mechanical failure to cause a patrol boat to drift into Iranian waters, because the vessels travel in pairs and carry towing bridles to ensure that one vessel can keep the other out of harm's way. The lightly armed patrol boats also should have been on high alert given recent Iranian actions, such a military exercise that involved launching rockets approximately 1,500 yards away from a U.S. aircraft carrier.

In the context of such provocative actions, Zinke speculated that Iran might have taken custody of the patrol boats as a hostile act. "I think America needs to know the truth about whether or not the situation was from a lack of training or something more," he said. "Where did the Iranians intercept them? Did they intercept them with a superior force? Were they actually in Iranian territorial waters or were they in international waters?"

Whether they planned the operation or not, Iranian government officials have turned the incident into a propaganda victory. They published photos of the sailors in custody and broadcast memes on social media on Tuesday. "It was in fact God's deed that took Americans to our waters," Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, tweeted Tuesday.

Ex-Navy SEAL lawmaker: Iranian capture of sailors 'doesn't add up'

See also:

Why did Iran release US Navy sailors so quickly?
14 January 2016 - Jonathan Beale explains why the US Navy personnel were returned so swiftly.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

It's easy to display your might against the US when we have both of our arms tied behind our back in the form of obama.