1.  US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation, citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml.

2.  Not all the incidents in Iranian waters involved tankers.

3.  At the Pentagon, military analysts have documented a dramatic Iranian crackdown on Iraqi oil smuggling in Iranian waters in the last two months.

4.  From the Russian section of the sea in the north sturgeon migrate to southern Iranian waters moving along the western shore.

5.  They extend north into Iranian waters, where the field is known as South Pars, but whose volume has not yet been explored.

6.  Turkey is trading through the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq, recent visitors say, and illicit commerce through Iranian coastal waters is flourishing again.

7.  For years, cargo ships and traditional Arabian dhows have violated U.N. sanctions by carrying Iraqi oil through Iranian waters to middlemen in Gulf states.

8.  Madad said any movement by vessels in Iranian waters should have been authorized by Iranian authorities.

9.  Madad said the tugs, owned by the Dutch firm Smit International, had entered Iranian waters to salvage a sunken Croatian ship.

10.  Smit International said the ships were involved in wreck removal activities in Iranian waters.