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.
if it’s being demoed it wouldn’t be flying any flags. it wasn’t being demoed though, it supposedly just participated in an Indian exercise or were there by invite.
out of ammunition for a warship and being piloted by civilians, and just partipated in a multinational exercise?
what?
link is fine, contractors and groups are on ships all the time. not my point. point there would be if it’s piloted /commanded by civilians, it wouldn’t be considered an unarmed Iranian warship anymore. it would just be a civilian vessel.
i don’t know everything nor do I wanna know. but I know if ships are sailing waters with comms live, with markings and flags flying what the US deems adversary, especially lately, well they’re military targets.
it’s a bad move on the US though but given the shit show lately, it seems to be …on par.