US submarine sank Iranian warship off Sri Lanka’s coast, Hegseth says

According to the US Secretary of Defense, a US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship, the Iris Dena, off the coast of Sri Lanka on Tuesday night. The attack resulted in the deaths of over 80 Iranian sailors. Sri Lanka's coastguard received a distress call and dispatched naval vessels to the scene, which was located 44 nautical miles from Galle, within Sri Lanka's economic zone but outside its territorial waters. The attack marks an escalation in hostilities between the US and Iran amid the ongoing war in the Middle East and is the first US military action against Iran outside of that region since the conflict began. The Iris Dena, a modern frigate equipped with various missiles and weaponry, was likely returning from an international fleet review hosted by the Indian navy.

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