Tehran [Iran], March 5 (ANI): Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said the United States would come to regret its action of destroying the Iranian vessel IRIS Dena with a torpedo strike in the Indian Ocean.
In a post on X, Araghchi said, “The US has perpetrated an atrocity at sea, 2,000 miles away from Iran’s shores. Frigate Dena, a guest of India’s Navy carrying almost 130 sailors, was struck in international waters without warning. Mark my words: The US will come to bitterly regret the precedent it has set.”
Araghchi’s comment follows confirmation on Wednesday by United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that a US submarine had sunk the Iranian warship IRIS Dena.
“In the Indian Ocean, an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet death. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II. Like in that war, back when we were still the War Department, we are fighting to win,” Hegseth said.
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, described the strike as an extraordinary demonstration of America’s global reach.
“As the secretary showed the video, for the first time since 1945, a United States Navy fast-attack submarine has sunk an enemy combatant ship using a single Mark 48 torpedo to achieve immediate effect, sending the warship to the bottom of the sea. I want to remind everybody that this is an incredible demonstration of America’s global reach to hunt, find, and kill an out-of-area deployer, something that only the United States can do at this scale,” he said.
Iran also threatened on Thursday to target the Dimona nuclear site if Israel and the United States sought to topple the Islamic Republic. The warning followed an open threat from Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz, who had said that any new leader brought in by the regime would be a legitimate target for elimination.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also said it had launched the nineteenth wave of Operation “True Promise 4” as a combined missile and drone operation, according to IRGC Public Relations.
According to the IRGC, “This operation against the positions of American-Zionist terrorists in the heart of the occupied territories and American terrorist bases began with massive explosions under the blessed code name ‘Ya Hassan ibn Ali (peace be upon him).’”
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps earlier announced that it had carried out strikes against Israeli and American targets across the region, according to Iranian state broadcaster Press TV.
In a statement on Wednesday (local time), the IRGC said the latest wave of attacks came on the fifth day of the operation, which Tehran says was launched in response to what it called “unprovoked aggression” by Israel and the United States.
The force claimed that more than seven advanced radar systems belonging to the United States and Israel had been destroyed, describing the strikes as having “blinded the eyes” of the two countries’ surveillance network in the region. (ANI)
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