US attack near Indian waters? Iranian frigate sinking off Sri Lanka amid escalation

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• An opposition legislator asked Sri Lanka parliament whether the vessel had been bombed as part of the ongoing US-Israeli attacks against Iran, but there was no immediate response from the government.
• The incident comes amid the escalating US-Israel-Iran conflict, now in its fifth day, following strikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and other top officials.
• The US Central Command, led by Admiral Brad Cooper, has reported that nearly 2,000 Iranian targets have been struck and 17 Iranian naval vessels, including the most operational submarine, have been destroyed in the Gulf and Arabian Sea region.
• “We are also sinking the Iranian Navy—the entire navy… and we will not stop,” Cooper said in a briefing earlier this week.