{"id":76604,"date":"2026-03-05T19:57:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/05\/iran-ship-sri-lanka-port-after-us-sinking-of-frigate"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:08:02","slug":"iranian-ship-asks-to-dock-in-sri-lankan-port-after-us-sinking-of-frigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76604","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka evacuates crew from Iranian navy vessel days after warship was destroyed by US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urgent request to dock is submitted by vessel after US submarine sank Iranian warship in same area on Tuesday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/05\/iran-war-latest-updates-canada-carney-trump-israel-tehran-strikes\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sri Lanka has evacuated 208 crew members from an Iranian navy vessel that made an emergency request to dock, a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/04\/us-submarine-torpedo-iran-warship-sri-lanka-coast-pete-hegseth\">a US submarine strike sank another Iranian frigate, killing more than 80 people on board.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, on Thursday confirmed that the country\u2019s navy would take over Iranian military support ship IRIS Bushehr and allow it to dock at the north-eastern port of Trincomalee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/05\/iran-ship-sri-lanka-port-after-us-sinking-of-frigate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urgent request to dock is submitted by vessel after US submarine sank Iranian warship in same area on TuesdayMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesSri Lanka has evacuated 208 crew members from an Iranian navy vessel that made an emergency request to dock, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5203,"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":[448,212,61,674,554,45,473,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76604","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\/5203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76619,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76604\/revisions\/76619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}