US Attacks Iran 2026

[JimFoxvog]

Pete Hegseth torpedoed an UNARMED ship sailing home from a friendly naval exercise, killed 87 sailors, and left the rest floating in the Indian Ocean without lifting a finger to help.

On March 4th, a U.S. submarine fired a single Mark 48 torpedo into the hull of the IRIS Dena, an Iranian frigate returning from India's MILAN 2026 multinational naval exercises. The ship had roughly 180 people on board. At least 87 were killed, and 61 remain missing. Sri Lanka's navy had to step in and rescue the 32 survivors.

Here's what makes this even more sickening. Both the U.S. and Iran were participants in the same Indian-hosted exercise, which required ships to operate without live ammunition.

The U.S. sent a P-8A patrol aircraft that flew drills alongside the Dena just days before a submarine destroyed her. Former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal called the attack premeditated, noting the U.S. knew exactly where the ship was because it had been invited to the same exercise.

Strategic affairs expert Brahma Chellaney put it bluntly: if the Dena was lightly armed or unarmed, the strike resembles a premeditated execution more than combat.

And Pete Hegseth? He bragged about it. Called it a "quiet death" at a Pentagon press conference, grinning like a man who just won a prize at the county fair. Trump has openly stated that wiping out Iran's navy is a key war objective.

The Second Geneva Convention requires belligerents to take all possible measures to search for and rescue the shipwrecked after an engagement at sea.

International law scholars, former Pentagon officials, and members of Congress are now openly debating whether this attack was legal and whether the U.S. violated its obligations by abandoning survivors in the water.

Sinking a ship that was someone's guest, that was following peacetime protocols, that couldn't fight back. Then leaving sailors to drown thousands of miles from home. That's not strength, that's a warcrime.

[barnhart]

This makes me even more committed to being pro- life.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Pete Hegseth torpedoed an UNARMED ship sailing home from a friendly naval exercise, killed 87 sailors, and left the rest floating in the Indian Ocean without lifting a finger to help.

On March 4th, a U.S. submarine fired a single Mark 48 torpedo into the hull of the IRIS Dena, an Iranian frigate returning from India's MILAN 2026 multinational naval exercises. The ship had roughly 180 people on board. At least 87 were killed, and 61 remain missing. Sri Lanka's navy had to step in and rescue the 32 survivors.

Here's what makes this even more sickening. Both the U.S. and Iran were participants in the same Indian-hosted exercise, which required ships to operate without live ammunition.

The U.S. sent a P-8A patrol aircraft that flew drills alongside the Dena just days before a submarine destroyed her. Former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal called the attack premeditated, noting the U.S. knew exactly where the ship was because it had been invited to the same exercise.

Strategic affairs expert Brahma Chellaney put it bluntly: if the Dena was lightly armed or unarmed, the strike resembles a premeditated execution more than combat.

And Pete Hegseth? He bragged about it. Called it a "quiet death" at a Pentagon press conference, grinning like a man who just won a prize at the county fair. Trump has openly stated that wiping out Iran's navy is a key war objective.

The Second Geneva Convention requires belligerents to take all possible measures to search for and rescue the shipwrecked after an engagement at sea.

International law scholars, former Pentagon officials, and members of Congress are now openly debating whether this attack was legal and whether the U.S. violated its obligations by abandoning survivors in the water.

Sinking a ship that was someone's guest, that was following peacetime protocols, that couldn't fight back. Then leaving sailors to drown thousands of miles from home. That's not strength, that's a warcrime.

If it was a frigate, as has been reported, it is not unarmed, and is a naval vessel. A “lightly armed “ vessel is still a combatant. If they did not know that an effective state of war existed, they were hopelessly naive. That provision of the second Geneva Convention has been a dead letter since WWIi.

[JohnH]

Another Iranian vessel pulled into a Sri Lankan port and effectively stood down. Smart move.

[temporal1]

This makes me even more committed to being pro- life.

who wrote it? is it balanced info?

[Bootstrap]

Well, we now have a clear goal - unconditional surrender. The last time any country surrendered to the US, it was Japan in 1945. Before that, the South in the Civil War.

In 1870, France surrendered unconditionally to Prussia.

But wow, unconditional surrender is very rare. And this is a religious extremist government that thinks they are in an end times struggle with The Great Satan. I'm wondering what the military objectives are that will lead to this goal. Do they expect to do that without ground troops? Or quickly?

[JohnH]

Well, we now have a clear goal - unconditional surrender. The last time any country surrendered to the US, it was Japan in 1945. Before that, the South in the Civil War.

In 1870, France surrendered unconditionally to Prussia.

But wow, unconditional surrender is very rare. And this is a religious extremist government that thinks they are in an end times struggle with The Great Satan. I'm wondering what the military objectives are that will lead to this goal. Do they expect to do that without ground troops? Or quickly?

Do you have a better proposal of what to do with a clearly lunatic regime that keeps firing missiles at every single one of its neighbours and is willing to go to any lengths to get nuclear weapons?

[ken_sylvania]

Well, we now have a clear goal - unconditional surrender. The last time any country surrendered to the US, it was Japan in 1945. Before that, the South in the Civil War.

In 1870, France surrendered unconditionally to Prussia.

But wow, unconditional surrender is very rare. And this is a religious extremist government that thinks they are in an end times struggle with The Great Satan. I'm wondering what the military objectives are that will lead to this goal. Do they expect to do that without ground troops? Or quickly?

Do you have a better proposal of what to do with a clearly lunatic regime that keeps firing missiles at every single one of its neighbours and is willing to go to any lengths to get nuclear weapons?

Referring to the USA?

[temporal1]

Well, we now have a clear goal - unconditional surrender. ..

source?

[ken_sylvania]

Well, we now have a clear goal - unconditional surrender. ..

source?

He said "we." That makes him the source, no?