After Iran released ten U.S. Navy sailors they had captured and interrogated the day before, several media outlets reported that the U.S. had apologized to Iran prior to the sailors’ release. To play damage control for the humiliating incident—which occurred on the eve of President Obama’s final State of the Union address and just days before the lifting of sanctions against Iran—Vice President Joe Biden appeared on “CBS This Morning” to emphatically deny that the U.S. had apologized.
“When you have a problem with the boat, (do) you apologize the boat had a problem? No,” Biden told CBS News Wednesday. “And there was no looking for any apology. This was just standard nautical practice.”
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