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The article discusses how Iranian authorities seized two U.S. Navy patrol boats and the 10 American soldiers on board the vessels based on the claim that the Americans were spying on Iran in the Persian Gulf, and it mentions the possibility that the two American boats strayed into Iranian territorial waters. According to the article, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Navy confiscated Global Positioning System equipment from the Americans.

The article discusses U.S. president Barack Obama's agreement to sign a bill that would allow the U.S. Congress to vote on a proposed deal between the U.S. and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. Topics addressed include the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee's decision to move the legislation to the full Senate for a vote, support for the bill by both Democrats and Republicans, and Obama's motivations for agreeing to sign the bill.