town as china s richest man buys a hollywood film studio ten u.s. navy sailors custody by iran scr just been released. iran detained them on tuesday after two small vessels entered waters near farsi island. sailors were travelling from kuwait bahrain. the two vessels strayed off course due to mechanical problems and the whole thing was close to being resolved. let s get reaction to this from the u.s. we are joined on the phone by rorl rorld. rosalind jordan. what is the clifford pennington saying. at 3:43:00a.m. here on the east coast of the united states, the 10 u.s. sailors were released by the iranians to the custody of the u.s. navy, they were on a vessel, and later the u.s. navy transported them to land. we don t know if they were taken back to kuwait, the origin of the trip on tuesday. they were sailing in a pair of riverine patrol boats, similar to what you are seeing on television. these are basically military speed boats kitted with firearms, intelligence and