From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Biden denies US apologized to Iran
US Vice President Joe Biden says that America did not apologize to Iran over US sailors allegedly entering Iranian territorial waters.
Biden makes the comments Wednesday in an interview with “CBS This Morning.”
The vice president says: “There’s nothing to apologize for. When you have a problem with the boat, you apologize the boat had a problem? No, and there was no looking for any apology. This was just standard nautical practice.”
Biden says that the Iranians realized the US sailors “were there in distress and said they would release them and released them like ordinary nations would do.”
The nine American men and one woman were held in an Iranian base on Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf after being detained nearby on Tuesday. The US military has said that mechanical trouble with one of the boats caused them to drift into Iranian territorial waters near the island, where they were picked up by Iran.
— AP
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