US Navy Personnel Disciplined in Iran Incident Rises to Nine

WASHINGTON- The Navy is taking disciplinary action against a total of nine of its personnel in connection with an embarrassing incident in January in which American sailors were detained by Iranian military authorities when two small U.S. boats mistakenly wandered into Tehran’s territorial waters.The sailors and officers failed to perform their duties and didn’t conduct proper mission planning, veering off course almost immediately after leaving port on Jan. 12, according to a U.S. official familiar with a new Navy report on the matter. The sailors were attempting to transit two riverine boats from Kuwait to