It's posturing

USN move carriers in, week or two later Iran "borrows" some of our Navy officers for a bit.

It's just a pissing contest - Tehran are not stupid enough to let this escalate imho.
Delta9 UK Reviewed by Delta9 UK on . Iranian forces seize British sailors LONDON -- Armed Iranian forces today seized 15 British Royal Navy sailors who had searched a merchant ship in the Persian Gulf, Britain's Defense Ministry said. Nader Daryaban, a correspondent in Tehran for the state-run daily newspaper Kayhan, said government officials had confirmed to him that the sailors had been detained. The officials would not disclose where they were being held. "The Revolutionary Guards detained the 15 sailors while they were in Iranian water, not Iraqi's," Rating: 5