Iran’s Navy seized two U. S. marine drones in the Red Sea on Thursday before releasing them on Friday, at the time an incident occurred this week.
In a statement, the U. S. Navy said in a statement. The U. S. Navy said the unmanned ships, known as Saildrone Explorers, were operating very close to each other in foreign waters when they were boarded aboard an Iranian shipment. A defense official said two U. S. Navy shipments were sent to the U. S. Navy. U. S. navy was following the Iranian Navy sends. U. S. The shipments asked for send-to-ship communications for the Iranian shipment to release the drones, and eventually it did. They were detained for approximately 18 hours.
The most recent incident involved Iran’s official navy. This follows an incident on Monday, when an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps envoy attempted to capture a U. S. drone in the Persian Gulf. A video released by the U. S. militaryThe U. S. Navy showed the IRGC shipment towing the U. S. drone. The U. S. Navy The U. S. responded and prevented the drone from flying.
“I hesitate to characterize it as a role model, to say that it’s indicative of the kind of habit we’ve noticed in Iran in the region for, frankly, many years, regarding this kind of disruptive and misplaced activity. “. Gen. Patrick Ryder said Tuesday at a briefing after the first seizure attempt.
The U. S. Navy’s Saildrone Explorersbegan operating in Middle Eastern waters in January.
In a first seizure, the U. S. Naval Forces Central Command said it was seized. The U. S. Navy said the Saildrone Explorers feature sensors, radars and cameras for navigation and data collection, but the generation is commercially available and does not store sensitive or classified information.
The most recent maritime incidents come as nuclear negotiations with Iran appear to be faltering.
The United States showed it had won Iran’s reaction to the European Union’s framework for restoring the Iran nuclear deal, but Deputy State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said Iran’s reaction was “unfortunately not constructive. “
For several weeks, it gave the impression that there was progress in talks to reinstate the 2015 deal that Trump management left in 2018. Biden’s management pledged to reinstate a nuclear deal and said it is the most productive way to prevent Iran from a nuclear weapon.
One of the reasons Trump’s management gave for his departure in 2018 was that the deal did not restrict Iran’s aid to delegated teams in the Middle East. In recent weeks, the United States carried out an airstrike on sites in Syria affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Body.
Deputy Secretary for Defense Policy Dr. Colin Kahl said the airstrikes demonstrated that the U. S. commitment to roll back Iran’s terrorism “is not similar to where we ended up with the nuclear deal. “