Illustrative image. (U.S. Navy)
An American nuclear-powered submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on March 4.
“An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo,” Hegseth told reporters at a press briefing.
He called the attack “quiet death.” He also noted it was the first U.S. sinking of an enemy vessel by torpedo since World War II, adding: “Like in that war, we are fighting to win.”
The Department of Defense shared footage of the torpedo attack against the warship, which was identified as the IRIS Dena. The torpedo struck the stern of the warship. The explosion was so powerful that it shredded the engine room, and lifted most of the warship in the air.
IRIS Dena was described as both destroyer and frigate by the English media. In Persian, however, it is known as ناوشکن (nâvšekan), which translates to “destroyer”.
With a displacement up to 1,500 tons and a length of 94 meters, it was one of the largest warships in service with Islamic Republic of Iran Navy. The 180-crew warship was also armed with heavy guns, surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles and torpedoes and could carry a helicopter.
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath confirmed that the country had rescued 32 “critically wounded” sailors aboard the IRIS Dena, which sank just outside the island nation’s territorial waters.
Herath said that two Sri Lankan navy vessels and an aircraft were deployed for the rescue operation, but did not say what caused the Iranian warship to sink.
Sri Lanka’s defense ministry later said that it was searching for over some 100 other members of the crew of the IRIS Dena.
“We are keeping up a search, but we don’t know yet what happened to the rest of the crew,” an official told AFP, dimming prospects for finding any more survivors.
Later, AFP reported, citing police and defense officials from Sri Lanka, that the country’s navy had recovered 87 bodies of sailors from the Iranian warship
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Speaking at the same Department of Defense press briefing with Hegseth, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine revealed that over 20 Iranian naval vessels have been destroyed, largely neutralizing the Islamic Republic’s main naval presence in the theater.
Earlier in the day, Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, said in a video statement that 17 Iranian ships, including the Islamic Republic’s “most operational submarine,” had been destroyed.
In addition to IRIS Dena, video footage posted online on March 4 revealed that IRIS Shahid Sayyad Shirazi, a Shahid Soleimani-class corvette of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, was also hit near the port of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. CENTCOM confirmed that it struck the warship and released its own footage.
The warship, which features a unique catamaran (twin hull) design, was armed with surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles, land-attack missiles and could carry a helicopter.
Since the start of the American-Israeli war on Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump set the destruction of Iranian naval forces as one of the main goals.
While the U.S. military has been very successful against the Iranian fleet, the Islamic Republic maintains a large arsenal of anti-ship weapons. At least ten tankers and cargo vessels have been reportedly targeted by the country near the strategic Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war.
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looks as though that ship was possibly running away from the fight.
iran did not strike anyone first in this conflict: therefore attacking iran is a crime under international law: like the attack on pearl harbor on december 7,1941. using diplomacy under false pretenses is known as perfidy since diplomacy has been created.
merz is meeting with trump, before his current job he was with blackrock who wants to own everything for the wef.
that doesn’t explain why the ship is near sri lanka
what’s up inbred ? toilet blocked up in the air raid shelter ?
clutching onto some illusory hope that you and the other vermin are coming out of this unscathed ?
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the ship was a lot closer to home than the joo/ amerikunt filth.
all that ‘international law’ stuff doesn’t seem to matter much when there is no one to enforce the so called ‘international law’.
no sanctions for the usa and israel, no un resolutions, no nothing, just the israelis and us doing what ever they want while the chinese and russians sit with fingers up their asses
sounds as though you’ve run away from some fights in your short life too, junior 🪝👃
i am indian and stating thoughts on ship movement.
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and don’t fuck up the order like you did last time. comprehendé ?
hi there again champ. you’re indian you say ? if you are you would have known that iranian frigate was returning home after engaging in naval exercises with the indian navy. don’t know as yet if any other countries were involved. do you ?
this is a war crime and this article doesn’t mention the reality of this ship’s location.
dlaczego lubicie smarować się gównem? my polacy nie chcemy was w naszym kraju. niech żyją białe narody. śmierć ameryce!
no, it was returning home from a routine visit to india. it was on its way to confront the amerikunt kiddie killer scum and their joo masters.
all of iranian surface ships turned into coral reefs heheh
it was returning from a routine exercise with the indian navy. as part of the normal practice of the exercise it was not carrying any weapons or munitions.
we, americans, see how delinquent “plutocrat” don trumpeter in his egoism actually is. what did islam republic do to invade u.s.a.? did a diabolical bolt of truth not come from united nations first of all!
ten rudy żyd to drugi hitler. usa wypierdalać z polski!
dead iranians sink like shit…heheheh
penetrują to ciebie ty syjonistyczna hieno!
shit usually floats. you’d float too.
live jooz stink like shit.
irán debe de recibir la ayuda inmediata de rusia, china y corea del norte, en misiles,drones sistemas antiaéreos,junto con asesores militares e inteligencia satelital. sobre todo rusia debería ser el primero en brindar está ayuda ya que irán estuvo muy activo enviando asesores militares, drones y misiles a rusia en su operación contra ucrania y sus patrocinadores occidentales.
ahora es el momento de que rusia retribuya esa ayuda de irán con misiles, radares, sistemas antiaéreos, drones de ataque e inteligencia satelital y asesores. sabemos que ee.uu tiene en el teatro de operaciones en medio oriente un arsenal limitado de recursos y de armas y esto debe ser aprovechado por irán y sus aliados estrategicos ya que un conflicto más largo beneficia a irán, pero debe contar con la ayuda de sus aliados.
rusia no debe de hacerse la desentendida en este conflicto, ya que sabemos que si rusia envía un par de buques de guerra, y un par de submarinos, junto con china sería un elemento de disuasión que ee.uu y sus aliados no pasarían desapercibidos ya que sabemos que ee.uu no escalaría un conflicto con 2 potencias nucleares capaces de borrar ciudades enteras con misiles balísticos hipersonico y nucleares.
borrar ciudades enteras de ee.uu y de sus aliados occidentales. es por eso que ee.uu jamás escalaría un conflicto con estás 2 potencias nucleares, sería una especie de crisis cubana pero con 2 actores nucleares rusia y china.
además irán debe de activar inmediatamente al eje de la resistencia houties de yemen, hezbolah del líbano y milicias populares de irak, todas atacando a la vez objetivos e infraestructura civil y militar dentro de israel y en países árabes donde existan instalaciones militares de eeuu y sus aliados. una guerra en varios frentes es algo que no desean israel y eeuu.
un conflicto largo y prolongado desgastaria los recursos en armamento de eeuu y de israel pero para esto se haga realidad es necesario la acción inmediata de los aliados de irán( rusia, china, corea del norte)
fun fact: that torpedo cost the us taxpayer over five million dollars…..
pete hegseth lied. that ship is a ferry linking india to iran with 180 civilians sunk in international water. typical zionist to deliberately attack civilians.
the amerikunt submarine that did this was based at the uk diego garcia. so british bases anywhere in range are now a legitimate target.