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| Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei greets a group of Revolutionary Guard officers last week. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images |
According to the guardian news report; Iran’s supreme leader has awarded medals to navy commanders for
capturing US sailors who entered Iranian territorial waters this month, Iran state media said on Sunday.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
who has said Iran should remain wary of its arch-enemy the US even
after a landmark accord over Tehran’s nuclear programme, awarded the
Fath (Victory) medal to the head of the navy of the Revolutionary Guards
and four commanders involved in the seizure of two US navy boats.
Iran has awarded the Fath medal since 1989 to war heroes, military
commanders and politicians, especially those linked to the eight-year
Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Iran freed the 10 US sailors on 13 January, a day after detaining
them aboard the two US navy patrol boats in the Gulf, bringing a swift
end to an incident that had rattled nerves shortly before the expected
implementation of the nuclear accord with world powers.
The Revolutionary Guards said it had determined the patrol boats had entered Iranian territorial waters by mistake.
The quick resolution contrasted with previous cases in which British
servicemen were held by Iran for considerably longer, in once case
almost two weeks.
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