A US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian ship in the Indian Ocean, fuelling fears that the US-Israeli war against Tehran is spreading beyond the Middle East.
“Yesterday in the Indian Ocean . . . an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters,” US defence secretary Pete Hegseth told a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday morning.
General Dan Caine, chair of the US joint chiefs of staff, said the attack on Tuesday night was the first time since 1945 that a US submarine had used a torpedo to sink an enemy combatant ship.
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