Iran Warns U.S. Will ‘Bitterly Regret’ Sinking Iranian Warship
(including running opinion on this article, it’s cathartic..KEK).1/2
Iran has issued a warning to the United States,suggesting grave repercussions for the Pentagon sinking an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka with a torpedo.
“The U.S. has perpetrated an atrocity at sea, 2,000 miles away from Iran's shores,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Thursday morning. “Mark my words: The U.S. will come to bitterly regret [the] precedent it has set.”. KEK
Araghch said theIranian frigate IRIS Dena was “a guest of India's navy” and roughly 130 sailors were “struck in international waters without warning.” IRIS stands for Islamic Republic of Iran Ship and serves as an identifier of Iranian naval vessels.
The warship had taken part in a naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal.
According to Sri Lankan officials, over 80 Iranian sailors died, more than 30 are in hospital, and the rest remain unaccounted for. Search-and-rescue efforts are ongoing.
Sri Lanka’s Minister of Health Nalinda Jayatissa reportedly told parliament Thursday that another Iranian vessel is sailing close to Sri Lanka’s territorial waters. “We are making necessary interventions to resolve this issue, restrict the threat to lives and to ensure regional security,” he said.
The torpedo incident has been heralded as a show of U.S. military might by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
“An American submarine sank an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters,” he told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday. “Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet death.”
Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine referred to the operation as “an incredible demonstration of America’s global reach” and noted that it’s the first time an American torpedo has sunk a ship since World War II.
“To hunt, find and kill an out-of-area deployer is something that only the United States can do at this type of scale,” he said.
The warship is one of over 20 Iranian ships “struck or sunk to the bottom of the ocean” by American forces, according to the U.S. Central Command.
Despite President Donald Trump claiming earlier in the weekthat some senior Iranian officials want to lay down arms, Iran has continued to launch retaliatory attacks.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had struck a U.S. oil tanker in the northern Persian Gulf on Thursday, according to state media.
Several tankers have dropped anchors in the Gulf after the IRGC warned that any U.S., Israeli, or European tanker passing through the crucial Strait, a narrow passage between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman through which around a fifth of global oil production flows, would “certainly be struck,” according to Iranian state media.
With traffic in the Strait of Hormuz largely coming to a halt, global oil and gas prices have surged, shipping costs have skyrocketed, and many insurers have dropped war risk protections. The impact may soon be felt by American consumers.
(Hey Iran the war’s name is “Operation Epic Fury”, not “Epic Play Nice”. Time Magazine always has to insert their opinion of what Trump, thinks, does or decides,they basically have an opinion about his opinion; or they assume Trump is not telling the truth,they are fucking annoying. The Iranian leaders cherish ships and submarines, but they couldn't care less if 100s of 1,000s or millions of their people die each year!)
https://time.com/7382652/iran-warns-united-states-conflict-escalates-struck-warship/