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It is important to say that these are civilians, not Royal Naval personnel ... They are yachtsmen, they were going about their sport and it seems they may have strayed inadvertently into Iranian waters.
We received a call from the crew stating that they had been stopped by an Iranian navy vessel
We understood that the crew believed they were in UAE waters, but due to a fault with the propeller, they may have inadvertently drifted into Iranian waters.
From what we understand there was an oilfield on their charts which is a restricted area so they chose to go one side of it