{"id":1494,"date":"2007-03-23T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T13:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/03\/23\/15-brit-navy-personnel-seized-by-iran\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T13:03:16","slug":"15-brit-navy-personnel-seized-by-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/03\/15-brit-navy-personnel-seized-by-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Brit Navy Personnel Seized by Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ominous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/meast\/03\/23\/iran.uk\/index.html\">development<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifteen British Royal Marines on patrol in the Persian Gulf have been &#8220;seized&#8221; by the Iranian navy, the British Ministry of Defense said.<\/p>\n<p>The Marines were &#8220;engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. military official who monitors the region told CNN the Marines stopped an Iranian ship suspected of smuggling automobiles, and boarded it for an inspection.<\/p>\n<p>While the Marines were on board, six Navy ships from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard showed up and claimed the British had entered Iranian waters.<\/p>\n<p>A dispute ensued over whether the Marines were in Iraqi, international, or Iranian territorial waters, and the 15 were then seized and taken to Iran, the U.S. military official said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ominous development&#8230; Fifteen British Royal Marines on patrol in the Persian Gulf have been &#8220;seized&#8221; by the Iranian navy, the British Ministry of Defense said. The Marines were &#8220;engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement on Friday. A U.S. military official who monitors the region told CNN the Marines stopped an Iranian ship suspected of smuggling automobiles, and boarded it for an inspection. While the Marines were on board,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/03\/15-brit-navy-personnel-seized-by-iran\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3528,3529,497,3530,3531,99,3532],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-british-navy","tag-england","tag-iran","tag-iranian-navy","tag-iranian-revolutionary-guard","tag-iraq","tag-territorial-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}