US EditionUS submarine sank Iranian warship in Indian Ocean with torpedo, Hegseth says
The U.S. military sank the IRIS Dena to weaken Iran’s forces during Operation Epic Fury, rescuing 32 survivors, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
- A U.S. submarine torpedoed and sank the Iranian warship IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka, marking the first sinking of an enemy ship by torpedo since World War II, according to U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
- Sri Lanka conducted a rescue operation, saving 32 injured sailors and recovering bodies after the distress call triggered by the sinking; the warship sank approximately 40 km south of Sri Lanka.
- NATO member Turkey shot down a drone near its airspace amid escalating U.S.-Israel-Iran hostilities, and Iran’s military warned that actions by the U.S. and Israel might collapse regional military and economic infrastructure.
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US Submarine Sinks Iranian Warship In Indian Ocean, Hegseth Says
Did a single torpedo just redraw the rules of modern naval warfare?That’s the claim from Pete Hegseth, who revealed that a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean this week. The strike, he said, came Tuesday—and the vessel met what he described as a “quiet death.”While he didn’t name the ship, clues quickly pointed to the IRIS Dena. Sri Lankan officials reported responding to a distress call from the Iranian destroyer. It went…
An Iranian warship was destroyed by a US attack submarine.
Burnett Equates U.S. Sub Attack With Iran Bombing Neutrals
CNN’s Erin Burnett displayed some bizarre and problematic moral equivalency on Wednesday as she hosted OutFront from Tel Aviv, Israel. Recapping the days’ events, she sought to compare an American submarine sinking an Iranian destroyer to Iran bombing neutral countries as proof the conflict is “escalating.” Burnett began, “This as the war is escalating tonight, as I speak, 10 countries across northern Europe, northern Europe, you heard me right,…
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