{"id":76581,"date":"2026-03-04T22:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/04\/us-submarine-torpedo-iran-warship-sri-lanka-coast-pete-hegseth"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:50:34","slug":"us-submarine-sank-iranian-warship-off-sri-lankas-coast-hegseth-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76581","title":{"rendered":"US submarine sinks Iranian warship as conflict spreads beyond Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frigate goes down off Sri Lanka as Washington and Israel step up their offensive and promise to hit \u2018deeper\u2019 targets in Iran<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/04\/iran-war-live-updates-us-israel-latest-news-strait-of-hormuz-middle-east-crisis\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A torpedo fired by a US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the south coast of Sri Lanka as the Trump administration followed through on its threats to destroy Tehran\u2019s military and political leadership.<\/p>\n<p>At least 87 Iranian sailors were killed in the attack on the Iris Dena on Wednesday. The frigate was sailing in international waters as it returned from a naval exercise organised by India in the Bay of Bengal. The torpedo strike prompted questions from former US officials about whether Washington\u2019s aim of eliminating all of Iran\u2019s military breached international law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/04\/us-submarine-torpedo-iran-warship-sri-lanka-coast-pete-hegseth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frigate goes down off Sri Lanka as Washington and Israel step up their offensive and promise to hit \u2018deeper\u2019 targets in IranMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesA torpedo fired by a US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the south coast of Sri Lanka as t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[448,212,3277,61,674,554,473,47,631,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pete-hegseth","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-trump-administration","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76607,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76581\/revisions\/76607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}