US rejects Tehran’s ‘false’ claim about Iranian warship sunk in submarine attack

The United States has rejected Iran’s claim that an Iranian warship was unarmed when it was sunk in a submarine attack in international waters off Sri Lanka on March 4.

The United States Indo-Pacific Command offered a sharply different account, rejecting Tehran’s claim about the warship IRIS Dena as Iranian officials insist it was operating in a noncombat role in the Indian Ocean.