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US War on Iran: Criminal and Cowardly

Photograph Source: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit – CC BY-SA 3.0

The US submarine torpedoing and sinking of an Iranian missile frigate known to be unarmed and not bound for Iran in any case (as without weapons to combat air nd sea attacks, and vastly outnumbered by the US 5th Fleet in the Persian Gulf it would have been a sitting duck in the Iran war zone) is a sorry tale. In all the mainstream US news accounts of the incident I could find, though the ship’s sinking its being glowingly hailed as the first successful torpedo sinking of an enemy warship since WWII.

The Iris Dena was returning from an international India-hosted fleet review featuring Navy ships from 74 countries, including Iran and even included an admiral from the US (the US did not send a ship, perhaps because of an Indian requirement that all participating vessels come disarmed). The unprovoked US attack submarine that was sent to sink the ship committed not just a potential war crime in attacking the Iris Dena in non-combat-zone neutral waters but behaved incredibly cowardly, akin to a soldier shooting dead an unarmed and unaware enemy........

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