{"id":330276,"date":"2026-03-05T12:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330276\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:48:09","slug":"iran-launches-new-attacks-saying-us-will-bitterly-regret-sinking-warship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330276\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran launches new attacks, saying US will \u2018bitterly regret\u2019 sinking warship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran launched a new wave of attacks at Israeli and American bases on Thursday morning and threatened that the US would \u201cbitterly regret\u201d torpedoing an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, a religious leader called for \u201cTrump\u2019s blood\u201d, while Israel said it had begun a \u201clarge-scale\u201d attack on Tehran.<\/p>\n

Israel announced multiple incoming missile attacks and air sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Iranian state television said additional strikes also targeted US bases.<\/p>\n

\"TrumpUS President Donald Trump praised the US military on Wednesday (Mark Schiefelbein\/AP)\n<\/p>\n

Iran launched its large Khorramshahr-4 missiles in an attack on Thursday targeting Israel, the country\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said.<\/p>\n

The Guard said the missiles had a one-ton warhead. The missiles can also be multiple warhead. Israel has said Iran used cluster munitions in attacks.<\/p>\n

The Guard claimed attacks in Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates as well.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said it launched targeted attacks in Lebanon at the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group and a \u201clarge-scale wave of strikes against infrastructure\u201d in Iran\u2019s capital, without elaborating.<\/p>\n

Explosions were heard in multiple locations in Tehran a short time later.<\/p>\n

The US navy sank an Iranian warship on Tuesday night in the Indian Ocean, killing at least 87 Iranian sailors, which Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi decried as \u201can atrocity at sea\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrigate Dena, a guest of India\u2019s navy carrying almost 130 sailors, was struck in international waters without warning,\u201d he wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cMark my words: The US will come to bitterly regret (the) precedent it has set.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AExplosions were heard in multiple locations in Tehran (Vahid Salemi\/AP)\n<\/p>\n

Officials in New Delhi said the Iranian warship had participated in naval exercises hosted by India before heading out into international waters in the Indian Ocean on its way home.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka\u2019s navy said it had responded to a distress signal from the IRIS Dena, but by the time it reached the location, there was no sign of the ship, just patches of oil and sailors floating in the water. The rescued mariners were taken to a hospital in the town of Galle, on Sri Lanka\u2019s southern coast.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s navy and defence ministry said the Iranian warship had participated in the International Fleet Review and the multilateral naval exercise MILAN 2026, organised by the Indian navy in the port of Visakhapatnam from February 15 to February 25. The ministry said 74 countries had joined the events.<\/p>\n

The Iranian warship was seen sailing at sea during the exercises in a February 17 post on X by the Indian navy. Another image showed several of its crew members posing on deck with the Iranian flag in the background.<\/p>\n

Mr Araghchi stressed that the frigate had been \u201ca guest\u201d of India\u2019s navy. The Indian government has not yet publicly commented on the incident.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka\u2019s media minister and government spokesman, Nalinda Jayatissa, told its parliament on Thursday that another Iranian ship had arrived in its waters. Mr Jayatissa did not provide further details about the ship or the number of people on board.<\/p>\n

Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli, in one of the few clerical statements so far from Iran, said the country was \u201con the verge of a great test\u201d and called on state television for \u201cthe shedding of Zionist blood, the shedding of Trump\u2019s blood\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFight the oppressive America, his blood is on my shoulders,\u201d he said in a rare call for violence from an ayatollah, one of the highest ranks within the clergy of Shiite Islam.<\/p>\n

The US and Israel launched the war on Saturday, targeting Iran\u2019s leadership, missile arsenal and nuclear programme while suggesting that toppling the government is a goal.<\/p>\n

But the exact aims and timelines have repeatedly shifted, signalling an open-ended conflict.<\/p>\n

The war has killed more than 1,230 people in Iran, more than 70 in Lebanon and around a dozen in Israel, according to officials in those countries.<\/p>\n

\"IsraeliIsraeli tanks manoeuvre near the Israel-Lebanon border, in northern Israel (Ariel Schalit\/AP)\n<\/p>\n

It has disrupted the supply of the world\u2019s oil and gas, snarled international shipping and stranded hundreds of thousands of travellers in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

A drone crashed on Thursday near the airport in Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijan exclave that borders the north of Iran and is separated from the rest of the country by Armenia. Another drone fell near a school and two civilians were injured, Azerbaijan\u2019s foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s general staff of the armed forces denied on Thursday that it had launched a drone toward Azerbaijan. The denial comes, however, as Iran has repeatedly denied targeting oil infrastructure and other civilian targets during the war, despite its drone and missile fire hitting those sites.<\/p>\n

Qatar evacuated residents near the US embassy in Doha as a temporary precaution and fighter jets could be heard overhead early in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia said it destroyed a drone in its province bordering Jordan, and a new attack off the coast of Kuwait appeared to expand the area where commercial shipping was in danger.<\/p>\n

\"IraqIraqi Shiites carry a replica of a coffin of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a symbolic funeral in Najaf, Iraq, on Wednesday (Anmar Khalil\/AP)\n<\/p>\n

An explosion rocked the area early on Thursday, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre run by the British military. It said a tanker apparently came under attack, but the agency did not offer a cause. Iran has attacked ships by attaching limpet mines to them in the past.<\/p>\n

Prior attacks since fighting began on Saturday have happened in the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, which connects it to the Persian Gulf and through which about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil is shipped.<\/p>\n

US stocks rebounded on Wednesday after oil prices stopped spiking and reports gave encouraging updates on the American economy.<\/p>\n

But oil prices resumed their ascent early on Thursday and Brent crude, the international standard, was up some 15% from the start of the conflict as Iranian attacks have disrupted traffic through the strait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran launched a new wave of attacks at Israeli and American bases on Thursday morning and threatened that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-330276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}