The IRIS Dena was torpedoed off the coast of Sri Lanka on Monday, the US secretary of war has said, confirming earlier reports.
A US submarine sank an Iranian Navy frigate in the Indian Ocean on Monday, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has said. Earlier media reports indicated that the IRIS Dena was struck about 40 nautical miles off the city of Galle in southwestern Sri Lanka, with dozens of crew members rescued by the Sri Lankan Navy.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Hegseth said the Iranian vessel had “thought it was safe in international waters.”
“Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet death,” Hegseth stated, claiming that the incident marked the “first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II.”
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On Wednesday, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath said his country had first received a distress call at around 5:08 AM, with two navy ships being immediately dispatched to assist the Iranian vessel.
“Thirty persons in need of urgent help were immediately rescued. They have been admitted to the Karapitiya Hospital in Galle,” the diplomat added.
Around 180 people were believed to be on board the IRIS Dena at the time of the attack.
Sri Lanka Navy spokesman Buddhika Sampath told reporters that rescuers had recovered several bodies that are suspected to be personnel of the Iranian warship.
Dumb yanks have broadened the conflict theatre and hence invite their own forces to be targeted more broadly – dumb yanks became dumber.
bastards
Let’s examine closely what Pete ‘Napoleon’ Hegseth has blown up over the last 24 hours. 1, an Iranian frigate in international waters returning from a well publicised naval exercise that anyone could track on Google. 2, one broken down truck in the middle of the desert. 3, one large building in Tehran that was empty. 4, targets the Americans thought were Iranian airplanes but were just painted decoys on the dirt. You’re a real military genius Pete!
Just wait until the Russians and Chinese step in with their hunter/killer subs…the tables might turn very quickly, but the delusional demented grandeurist in the Pale House (can’t say ‘White’ House anymore…dat’s RACISTS!!!) probably never thought of the ramifications of undersea warfare now on a global, international waters status…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1jiklu4cI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_URax_h2viU
And the Russians?…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGyPV-xTbZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOLmb9wE69c
Wasting money, time, resources, etc. due to supporting a corrupt Shah which led to the current criminal Iranian Regime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpwZSPGVHIw
46 years ago…
https://upmovies.net/watch/QvMp6NZd-desert-one.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgNY5btqQYQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bSi4Dkgobo
Hegseth is a DEI hire under the Epstein regime’s fornicating clown quota
Hegseth is a white guy, you walking void.
He can’t be a DEI hire by definition.
Please think before you type stupid sh!t.
An apparent plus for the yanks but these kind of warships are not necessary for the assymetric naval warfare the Iranians are likely to use if Trump is dumb enough to order the US navy anywhere near the Strait of Hormuz. The only real world result from the sinking is that it gave Lindsay Graham a massive boner.
A tech briefing in progress right now (9:18am) with AI and tech leaders. A few dozen in the audience are wearing hard plastic hats – do they expect to come under attack with the roof falling in?
A tech briefing in progress right now (9:18am) with AI and tech leaders. A few dozen in the audience are wearing hard plastic hats – do they expect to come under attack with the roof falling in?
Inside the White House
Dumb yanks… Look how dumb you kiwis are.. your govt has sold your country…
Mass immigration,
Extortion at supermarkets and fuel bowser
Power bills doubling
Can’t afford housing
Can’t afford rent.. and your worried about what’s happening on the other side of the planet… Who’s going to save you if China invaded…. Dumb yanks
Oh yes when is China planning to invade us, exactly? You wouldn’t have been here during WWII either, were it not for the fact your shitty govt at the time sanctioned Japan into a war with you. Nothing but global trouble makers, nothing has changed either.
Conflict theatre continues to broaden.
Another tanker sunk, not in Strait of Hormuz, but sunk in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and nearby Malta
Someone really wants to start WW3
Yay! Go war criminals!
Jesus Christ this comment section is mind cancer. What happened to this website.