The commanding officer of the two U.S. Navy boats that were captured by Iran in January will face punishment for the incident, according to defense officials. Lt. David Nartker was the highest ranking of the 10 sailors detained at gunpoint Jan. 12 by Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp Navy. Nartker was filmed apologizing for entering Iranian ...

More officers and enlisted have been disciplined for their conduct inthe January Farsi Island debacle, which lead to the capture of 10 sailors and two riverine command boats by Iranian paramilitaries. Four officers and two enlisted went to mast beforeNavy Expeditionary Combat Command head Rear Adm. Frank Morneau. Of the four officers, two were found ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Navy has fired a second commander in connection with the 10 American sailors who wandered into Iranian territorial waters in the Persian Gulf in January and were captured and held by Iran for about 15 hours. Vice Adm. Kevin M. Donegan, commander of Naval Forces Central Command, has relieved Capt. Kyle Moses of his duties ...

The United States military has fired the commander of a team of Navy sailors captured by Iran earlierthis year over trespassing on the Islamic Republics territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The Navy said in a statement that it has lost confidence in commander Eric Rasch, who was the executive officer of the coastal riverine squadron. The statement ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state TV says the country has retrieved thousands of pages of information from devices used by 10 U.S. Navy sailors briefly detained by Iran in January. The Tuesday report quotes Gen. Ali Razmjou saying the information was retrieved from laptops, GPS devices and maps. Razmjou is a naval commander in the powerful Revolutionary ...

Iran has released the US marines who had crossed into Iranian�territorial�waters after�US apologizing for the "unintentional" violation of Iran's waters.     By Sepah News

Tehran, Feb 1, IRNA Capture of US sailors was not pre-planned and divine intervention led to US sailors detention, IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi said on Monday. Speaking in the Majlis (parliament) public session, he said that it was the fourth time that IRGC Navy seized US and UK boats which illegally entered Iranian territories. IRGC ...

Tehran, February 17,The Iran Project Iran's IRGC top commanders reacted to a note published by an Iranian newspaper last Sunday, criticizing it for comparing the forces'move in defending the nation's territory with the ISIS terrorist acts. Following a note published by Ghanoon Newspaper last Sunday which had compared the Iranian military forces' ...

Tehran has released provocative new photographs and video of the US sailors who were detained in the Persian Gulf hours before President Obamas State of the Union Address last month, after they strayed into Iranian waters. The photos and video were aired on state television and shared to social media by Iranian reporters. Some of the images feature ...

Tehran, Feb 1, IRNA Parliament (Majlis) presiding board praised Navy commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) for seizing US sailors. The parliament presiding board presented bunches a flowers to the IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi and other forces who had a role in seizing the US sailors. Fadavi briefed the lawmakers ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events   Leader confers Fath medal on IRGC commanders Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has conferred theFath (Victory) medal on commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) naval forces for arresting US Marines who trespassed onIrans territorial waters....

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei awarded the 'Medal of Fath (Conquer)' to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy commanders who recently detained 10 US sailors in Persian Gulf after their intrusion into the country�s territorial waters.   By Khamenei.ir

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei receives Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy (3rd-left), and a group of IRGC naval forcesin arresting US Marines who trespassed into Irans territorial waters in Tehran, January 24, 2016.        ...

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Wednesday that Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were "no problem" for the Iranian government, and moreover, their cooperation demonstrates the democratic nature of Iranian statehood. DAVOS (Sputnik) This is inexample ofIran having a "multitude ofviews" which signifies a "good, healthy and ...