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Officials in New Delhi say that an Iranian warship that was sunk by a U.S. submarine near Sri Lanka had participated in naval exercises hosted by India before heading out into international waters in the Indian Ocean on its way home.
American forces torpedoed Iranian warship IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean, near Sri Lanka. It was returning from Visakhapatnam after a multilateral naval exercise. The sinking of an Iranian ship in India's strategic waters is significant for New Delhi.