US Navy rescued two Iranian mariners in distress last Friday, US military says

The US Navy rescued two Iranian mariners in distress last Friday in international waters, US Central Command said in a news release. Sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group, which is operating in and around the Gulf of Oman, rescued the Iranian civilians from the water. The release does not say what caused the Iranians to be in distress or where exactly they were rescued. A rigid inflatable boat from a US destroyer and a rescue helicopter from the aircraft carrier picked up the mariners on August 23...