If there was a ‘navigational error’, why didn’t they communicate with US forces? And if they weren’t in grave danger of their lives, why did John Kerry and Ash Carter contact Iran to find them, putting them in a potentially grave situation?
MIAMI – The 10 US sailors who were held by Iran before being released on Wednesday made a navigational mistake that led them into Iranian waters but did not communicate that to Navy commanders before being intercepted, the US military said on Thursday.
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the information came from debriefings of the sailors, who were flown on Wednesday to a US military facility in Qatar after Iran released them along with their two riverine boats.
“The information that they have given us, and through their commanders, is that they did stray accidentally into Iranian waters due to a navigation error,” Carter said in an interview with FUSION television’s Jorge Ramos, which will also air on Spanish-language Univision.