U.S. submarine sinks Iranian warship
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called the sinking of an Iranian warship with a single Mk48 torpedo a "quiet death."
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(CNN) — US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters after Sri Lanka’s Navy said it rescued more than two dozen people from an Iranian vessel that was sunk off its shoreline.
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Hegseth stressed that the operation is still in its early days, noting that "metrics are shifting, dust is settling and more forces are arriving." Hegseth said the U.S. could "sustain this fight easily for as long as we need to" and "we're just getting started.