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Iran Gives Medals for Capture of U.S. Navy Soldiers

By Eowyn @DrEowyn

Of course they did.

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Earlier this month Iran captured U.S. Navy soldiers in their boats in the Persian Gulf. Iran released our soldiers amidst praise from John “I served time in Vietnam” Kerry. He said, “we can all imagine how a similar situation might have played out three or four years ago.”

Kerry & Hanoi Jane

Reuter’s reported yesterday that Iran’s supreme leader awarded medals to navy commanders for capturing U.S. sailors who entered Iranian territorial waters, Iran’s state media said on Sunday.

Apparently the U.S. giving Iran the power to make nuclear weapons and $1 BILLION isn’t enough to make them happy with us.

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Even after that, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said Iran should remain wary of its arch-enemy the U.S. The crazed leader 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 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 Guardss said it had determined the patrol boats had entered Iranian territorial waters by mistake.

Read the rest of the whole story here.

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