THE HILL, January 18, 2016 – Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that he was outraged by the footage of U.S. sailors being apprehended at gunpoint by the Iranian military last week.
“I was very angry. I was very frustrated and angry that that was released. I raised it immediately with the Iranians,” he said during an interview on CNN.
“…It was put out I think by the military over there, the [Iranian Revolutionary Guard], who is opposed to what we are doing.”
“There’s no excuse for it,” he added later.
Last week, 10 U.S. Navy sailors were taken into custody by the Iranian coast guard after they, as Kerry put it, “regrettably, inadvertently went into Iranian waters” due to a mechanical problem. They were released the next day.
Iran released footage that showed the captured sailors on their knees with guns pointed at them