The United States compelled Iran, for a second time this week, to release US military sail drones that it tried to seize at sea, a US defence official said on Friday, Reuters reports. Iran has been building up its naval presence in the Red Sea, near the coast of Yemen where Tehran backs the Houthi Movement, after sending vessels there more than a decade ago to protect Iranian oil tankers and merchant ships against piracy. The incident there, after an earlier one in the Gulf, was the latest reminder of military tensions between the United States and Iran, even as both countries pursue nuclear talks. They follow exchanges of fire last week between the US troops and Iran-backed groups in Syria. […]
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