{"id":743829,"date":"2022-01-11T00:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T00:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/american-anti-narcotics-crew-rescued-iranian-drug-runners-in-distress-u-s-navy-says\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T00:16:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T00:16:45","slug":"american-anti-narcotics-crew-rescued-iranian-drug-runners-in-distress-u-s-navy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/american-anti-narcotics-crew-rescued-iranian-drug-runners-in-distress-u-s-navy-says\/","title":{"rendered":"American anti-narcotics crew rescued Iranian drug-runners in distress, U.S. Navy says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan. 10 (UPI) —<\/span> The U.S. military says that a crew of American sailors who were on a mission in the Gulf of Oman last month rescued a group of mariners after they ran into trouble on the high seas.<\/p>\n

Military officials reported the Dec. 15 encounter last month, but identified the rescue ship as the USS Sirocco on Sunday. The Sirocco was based on the USS Lewis B. Puller.\n<\/p>\n

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U.S. officials said the troubled mariners were a group of five Iranian nationals who’d been smuggling illegal drugs when an explosion occurred on their boat.<\/p>\n

Two of the injured mariners were flown to Oman for medical help. One is still missing and presumed dead.<\/p>\n

“The entire crew, both military and civilian mariners, stepped up to perform incredibly that day,” Navy Capt. Richard G. Burgess, the commander of the Puller, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Our team did not waiver for a moment, and acted with professionalism and compassion to save lives.”<\/p>\n

The U.S. Navy says before the blast, the mariners had been seen pouring containers of liquid onto the boat’s forward deck.<\/p>\n

Authorities later confiscated about $15 million worth of drugs from the Iranians’ boat, including hashish, methamphetamine and heroin.\n<\/p>\n

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Officials said the Sirocco was performing anti-narcotics activity when they made the rescue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan. 10 (UPI) — The U.S. military says that a crew of American sailors who were on a mission in the Gulf of Oman last month rescued a group of mariners after they ran into trouble on the high seas. Military officials reported the Dec. 15 encounter last month, but identified the rescue ship as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}