Bodies of 84 Iranian sailors killed in US torpedo strike to be repatriated
The seamen died when Iranian warship the Iris Dena was sunk on 4 March by a US submarine near Sri Lanka.
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The seamen died when Iranian warship the Iris Dena was sunk on 4 March by a US submarine near Sri Lanka.
A Sri Lankan court has ordered the repatriation of 84 Iranian sailors' bodies from the IRIS Dena, which was sunk by a U.S. submarine on March 4, 2026.
A local court in Sri Lanka has ordered that the bodies of 84 sailors killed in an attack on the Iranian warship IRIS Dena be handed over to the Iranian embassy.
Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson honored the sailors of the IRIS Dena frigate killed after a U.S. submarine torpedoed the vessel near Sri Lanka.
The United States and Iran have offered sharply different accounts of the sinking of the Iranian warship IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean last week.
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