TEHRAN (Tasnim) A senior Iranian military commander rejected the US anger at the January arrest of its sailors by Iran in the Persian Gulf, stressing that Tehran could have treated the captives very sternly. Speaking to reporters, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said Irans behavior toward the ...

Iranian MPs in Majlis�hails IRGC Navy commanders who had captured US sailors in the Persian Gulf �on Monday.�   By Mizan Online�

U.S. Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday he would subpoena 10 U.S. sailors to testify about their brief detention by Iran if the Obama administration does not provide the findings of an investigation into the incident byMarch 1. "It's an option that I do not want to exercise," McCain, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, told ...

The U.S. military has released its first official account of Iran's 15-hour detention of 10 U.S. sailors whose boats had strayed into Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf last week. A U.S. Central Command statement said the two Navy vessels were scheduled to meet up with a U.S. Coast Guard boat in international waters for refueling but deviated from ...

Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman says the drifting of the US vessels into Irans territorial waters was nohostile act. It was established that their presence in [Iran's] sectorwas due to technical problems with the navigation systems of the US vessels, HosseinJaberi Ansari said on Wednesday. He added that the US vessels were led out of Iran's ...