U.S. torpedoes Iranian warship in Indian Ocean
March 4|
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U.S. torpedoes Iranian warship in Indian Ocean
- March 4
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- Duration 0:55
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed at a Pentagon briefing. Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs Minister Vijitha Herath said 180 people were on-board the vessel. Of those, at least 87 have been killed, while more than 30 were rescued. CORRECTION (Mar. 4, 2026): An earlier version of this video showed Hegseth characterizing the incident as the first time since the Second World War that a submarine had sunk an enemy combatant ship with a torpedo. In fact, a British submarine sank the Argentinian ship Belgrano with torpedoes in 1982.
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