Iran gives war hero victory medals for capture of U.S. sailors

by **Ponee** Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:50 am

This is yet another indication that Obama’s nuke deal will not bring peace, but has only emboldened an aggressive power that considers itself to be at war with the United States.

Iran gives war hero victory medals for capture of U.S. sailors Navy-sailor-with-headscarf

Iran gives war hero victory medals for capture of U.S. sailors Navy-sailor-with-headscarf

“Iran gives medals for capture of U.S. sailors,” Reuters, January 31, 2016:
DUBAI: Iran’s supreme leader has awarded medals to navy commanders for capturing U.S. sailors who entered Iranian territorial waters this month, Iran’s state media said on Sunday.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has said Iran should remain wary of its arch-enemy the United States even after a landmark accord over Tehran’s nuclear programme, awarded the Fath (Victory) medal to the head of the navy of the Revolutionary Guards and four commanders involved in the seizure of two U.S. Navy boats.

Iran has awarded the Fath medal since 1989 to war heroes, military commanders and politicians, especially those linked to the eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

Iran freed the ten U.S. sailors on Jan. 13, a day after detaining them aboard the two U.S. Navy patrol boats in the Gulf, bringing a swift end to an incident that had rattled nerves shortly before the expected implementation of the nuclear accord with world powers.

The Revolutionary Guards said it had determined the patrol boats had entered Iranian territorial waters by mistake….

ByPamela Geller on February 1, 2016
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