US sinks Iranian ship on high seas, hammering Tehran's navy
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US-Israeli strikes have destroyed at least 11 Iranian naval vessels, images reviewed by BBC Verify show.
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Operation Epic Fury destroys Iran's navy and cuts missile attacks by 90% in ongoing campaign
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper reveal Operation Epic Fury devastated Iran's military, sinking 30+ ships and cutting missile attacks 90%.
Iran may not have one of the biggest navies in the world, but it does have quite a lot of ships nonetheless. Here's what kinds of vessels the country owns.
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters. Whether the strike was justified, whether survivors should have been rescued and whether the war is even legal remain open questions.
Operation Epic Fury enters a seventh day Friday as new video released by CENTCOM shows Iranian targets are being “decimated” by U.S. forces, who continue mission to “sink the entire Iranian Navy.”
Iran’s navy suffered devastating losses in the last week, with most of its surface vessels damaged or destroyed, leaving the country to depend on a fleet of smaller ships such as midget submarines and missile-equipped speedboats.
Officials in New Delhi say that an Iranian warship that was sunk by a U.S. submarine near Sri Lanka had participated in naval exercises hosted by India before heading out into international waters in the Indian Ocean on its way home.
The Pentagon says it has destroyed Iran's Navy, and that all Iran's senior leaders have been killed. But questions remains about the strategic objectives of the U.S.- and Israeli-led military campaign.
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Oil slick, life rafts, dozens of bodies: What Sri Lankan navy found after US sank Iranian warship
Sri Lanka said its navy rescued 32 survivors after a U.S. torpedo sunk Iranian warship IRIS Dena with 180 aboard. Crews recover 87 bodies from the wreckage.
Sri Lanka has taken custody of an Iranian ship after it asked for help near its coast. The Sri Lankan navy on Friday brought 204 Iranian sailors from the IRIS Bushehr to a base near Colombo, where officials ran border checks and medical tests.
“Yesterday in the Indian Ocean, … an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters,” Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a press conference this morning. “Instead, sunk by a torpedo, quiet death, the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II.”