US Navy Saves Iranians Held Captive by Pirates
If the tables were turned, would Iranians have rescued Americans? My guess is that Iranian sailors would be inclined to do so, but the Iranian theocrats would have a different view. At the very least, they’d be calling them “spies” instead of “fishermen.” AA
From the New York Times:
“In a naval action that mixed diplomacy, drama and Middle Eastern politics, the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis broke up a high-seas pirate attack on a cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, then sailors from an American destroyer boarded the pirates’ mother ship and freed 13 Iranian hostages who had been held captive there for more than a month.”
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