Iranian warship hit by US torpedo was 'defenceless', former Indian official claims
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The ship had taken part in naval exercises hosted by New Delhi and was in international waters, former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal says

An Iranian warship destroyed in a US torpedo strike on Wednesday was “defenceless” and participating in an international naval exercise as a guest of the Indian navy, according to reports.

Former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal said “the Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk [sic] part in our Milan exercise”. Sibal added that because it was taking part in an exercise “it was defenceless”.

Indian politician Supriya Shrinate said on social media: "These Iranian navy men parading at an event in India, were our guests. Invited by us.

“US submarine targeted their ship and killed them while they were returning home.” Shrinate also criticised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his failure to make a statement on the attack.

  • Attacker94@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I might be missing something big, but this doesn’t seem like a degenerate course of action. I think this mainly because

    1. It is a military vessel and thus has no reasonable protection based upon it being “peaceful”
    2. The unfortunate reality is that the US is at war again in the middle east, and boats get blown up in war, especially when the US government has declared that destruction of Iranian navy is one of their goals.

    Overall, I could understand the condemnation for the attacks from the perspective that the US shouldn’t be fighting an illegal war, but if you concede that point, the attack of an enemy military vessel irregardless of its current capabilities is a fully ok course of action.