Iran: U.S. Action to Save their Sailors is "Humanity"

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry to assess the rescue action of the United States on 13 Iranian sailors from Somali pirates sekapan is the act of "humanity".


According to Foreign Ministry Spokesman Iran, Ramin Mehmanparast, the campaign against the pirates is an international obligation, and Iran has conducted such operations in the past in line with the international campaign against the pirates to release the sailors of other nations.

The U.S. Navy on Friday (6 / 1), announced that it has saved 13 Iranian hostage by Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea, a few days after tensions rise as Iran warned against the return of aircraft carrier battle groups to the Persian Gulf the United States.

U.S. aircraft carriers, guided missiles, the USS Kidd, a part of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis attacker who only a few days and then depart from the Gulf, responding to an emergency call Al Molai Iranian ship, who were taken hostage by Somali pirates for more than 40 days. A team of U.S. Navy destroyer USS Kidd ship to send helicopters to Iran, which is used as a "mother ship" by the pirates, and arrested 15 pirates.

The sailors that Iran has been freed and returned to their country after the U.S. Navy team to give them food, water, and medical. The rescue operation came amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran, the military chief on Tuesday warned Washington to send the mother ship them back to the Gulf.