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Frigate sunk by US off Sri Lanka coast had no weapons: Iran MFA
March 6 (Armenia News) - Two days after a US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka’s coast, Iran on Friday warned that the attack on an “unarmed ship cannot go with impunity,” reports Greater Kashmir.
The Iranian frigate sunk by Americans off Sri Lankan coast had no weapons, Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh said.
The Iranian frigate, IRIS Dena, was returning home after participating in the Milan multilateral naval exercise hosted by India. At least 87 Iranian sailors were killed in the attack, which marked a major escalation in the conflict between the US and Iran outside of the Persian Gulf.
“That vessel was by invitation of our Indian friends, attending an international exercise. It was ceremonial. It was unloaded. It was unarmed,” Khatibzadeh said.
“It is very unfortunate. Many of the young Iranian sailors who were attending these exercises lost their lives. It cannot go with impunity for those who actually did that,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the Raisina Dialogue.
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