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The ship is expected to be disinfected and cleaned in San Diego, while the crew isolated and quarantined, said the report.
Seven US sailors have been missing after a U.S. Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan.
U.S. sailors who blundered into Iranian waters in January divulged sensitive information to their captors while held at gunpoint by Iran`s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S. Navy report said on Thursday.
Iran freed 10 U.S. sailors on Wednesday, a day after detaining them aboard two U.S. Navy patrol boats in the Gulf, bringing a swift end to an incident that had rattled nerves just before the expected implementation of a landmark nuclear accord.
Investigations showed US sailors had entered Iranian waters unintentionally, a statement said Wednesday.
The naval commander of Iran`s Revolutionary Guards told state television Wednesday it probably "won`t take long" for 10 US sailors detained in Iranian territory in the Gulf to be freed.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards in a statement early today confirmed they had seized two American boats and 10 sailors in "Iranian territory" near the Farsi island in the Gulf.
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