{"id":518916,"date":"2026-03-04T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518916\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:40:10","slug":"iranian-ship-sunk-off-sri-lanka-israel-hezbollah-clash-in-lebanon-missile-aimed-at-turkey-shot-down-ali-khameneis-son-mojtaba-khamenei-set-to-succeed-supreme-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518916\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian ship sunk off Sri Lanka; Israel, Hezbollah clash in Lebanon; missile aimed at Turkey shot down; Ali Khamenei\u2019s son Mojtaba Khamenei set to succeed Supreme Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean is the first time a US submarine has sunk a vessel on the surface since World War II.<\/p>\n

The IRIS Dena was a Moudge-class frigate from Iran\u2019s Southern Fleet and had a crew of about 180. It was armed with heavy guns, surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles and torpedoes, and could carry a helicopter.<\/p>\n

The ship was thought to be heading back to Iran from a joint military exercise off India\u2019s eastern coast. According to the London Telegraph, the ship\u2019s commanders had attended a naval conference in India along with US naval chiefs before it was torpedoed on its return journey.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the US military said it had already destroyed 17 Iranian vessels and that its goal was to sink \u201cthe entire navy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"IranianIranian warship IRIS Dena.AP<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka\u2019s foreign minister said its navy had responded to a \u2060distress call from the IRIS Dena and launched a rescue operation at 6am (12pm Wednesday, AEDT). Some 87 bodies have been recovered, he said, and 32 people have been taken to hospital.<\/p>\n

The sinking is the first time in almost 50 years that a submarine has destroyed a major warship.<\/p>\n

In May 1982, the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror destroyed the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War, killing 323 sailors.<\/p>\n

A smaller South Korean navy ship, the Cheonan, sank in March 2010 after a North Korean submarine attack, resulting in the loss of 45 lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean is the first time a US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-518916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}