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The Iranian frigate sunk by a U.S. submarine last week had just left an Indian naval exercise. Now India's political opposition is demanding answers.
The reported sinking of the Iranian warship IRIS Dena by a US submarine using a Mark-48 torpedo in the Indian Ocean has triggered debate among military lawyers and analysts about whether the strike was lawful under international law.
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Iran says IRIS Dena was ‘unarmed, unloaded’ when US submarine torpedoed it during return from India
According to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, this marks the first time since World War II that an American submarine has attacked a surface vessel.
The sinking of the IRIS Dena marks a significant escalation in the US-Iran conflict, now affecting the Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka has intervened for humanitarian reasons with the IRINS Bushehr, as the US claims to have sunk over 30 Iranian ships in recent operations.
India has clarified its role after a U.S. submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena near Sri Lanka. The Indian Navy said the vessel was outside India’s jurisdiction but confirmed it launched humanitarian search-and-rescue operations after a distress call,
The Indian Navy launched search and rescue operations after receiving a distress signal from the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena, which sank in the Indian Ocean after being struck by a torpedo from a United States submarine.
The Iran war keeps expanding. American forces torpedoed the Iranian warship Iris Dena in the Indian Ocean, near Sri Lanka, killing 87 of its crew. The vessel was returning from India’s Visakhapatnam a
Iran condemned the attack on the Iranian vessel that led to the killing of 87 sailors and claimed that it was unarmed and unloaded when it was sunken by the US.
The Iranian frigate Iris Dena was destroyed by a US torpedo attack early Wednesday morning, marking a rare naval escalation in the expanding conflict.
The Indian Navy has clarified its role regarding the sunken Iranian warship IRIS Dena. Senior officials directly involved in the sequence of events have made it unequivocally clear that IRIS Dena ceased to be a guest of the Indian Navy from the afternoon of February 25,