2016 United States–Iran naval incident

When

12 Jan 2016

Kind

Event

Coordinates

27.99° N, 50.17° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2016 United States–Iran naval incident.

Iranian naval forces seize and detain two small U.S. vessels which "allegedly drifted into Iranian territorial waters." The 10 American sailors are held at an Iranian military base on Farsi Island and released the following day with their boats.

Maritime incident in the Persian Gulf

On January 12, 2016, two United States Navy riverine command boats were seized by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy after they entered Iranian territorial waters near Iran's Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf. Initially, the U.S.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article

• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “توقيف زورقين حربيين للبحارة الأمريكيين بواسطة القوة البحرية لحرس الثورة الإسلامية بعد دخولهما غير المشروع إلى المياه الإقليمية الإيرانية”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page