The ten American
sailors that were captured by Iran have been freed.
They were captured
Tuesday after their two naval boats entered Iranian waters near Farsi Island,
in the Persian Gulf. The Iranian Government said they were tresspassing and as
well spying for America. It is because of the past issues that America has had
with Iran that’s why the sailors were arrested by Iranian officials.
The sailors' release on
Wednesday morning went on for hours, with Iranian officials interrogating the
sailors about their motives and demanding a U.S. apology. Iran is still agitated
after the issue with Saudi Arabia killing a Shite Cleric.
But Iranian officials
said they deemed the incident accidental. They said they didn’t mean to handle
the matter likwe that. They just wanted to know the Sailors’ motives and why
they entered Iranian waters.
The evidence shows that they didn’t mean to enter the
Iranian waters because of the failure of their navigational system," IRGC
spokesman Ramazan Sharif said on Press TV. He said they didn’t purposely eneter
Iranian waters but they were just following proptocols on how do deal with this
kind of situation. I think the past issues between America and Iran could have
made them act like this.
On Wednesday morning,
officials of Iran questioned the sailors to find out if they "entered
Iranian waters intentionally on an intelligence mission," the Iranian Revolutionary
Guard Corps said, according to the state-run Press TV. They just wanted to know
the reason why they enetered Iranian waters.
And Iran's Foreign
Minister called for the United States to apologize for the
"encroachment" of American vessels into Iranian territorial waters, a
top Iranian navy commander told state-run media. The Foreign Minister said Iran deserves a immediate apology from
America and that it shouldn’t happen again.
IRGC Navy Commander
Admiral Ali Fadavi said the presence of the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf
waters "disturbed the security of the area" and criticized the U.S.
Navy maneuvers.
There is nothing to
indicate the capture was a hostile act on the part of Iran, a senior Obama
administration official said. He said they were just folloeing protocols and
that they had no intentions to harm the Sailors.
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