Gen. Dan Caine, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the US Navy fast-attack submarine used "a single Mark 48 torpedo".

A US official, who was not authorised to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the Iranian ship was the Dena.

The sinking of the Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean illustrates how the US military operation against Iran is stretching far beyond the Islamic Republic's borders. Trump has said that one of the US military's main objectives in the campaign is to wipe out its Navy.

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A US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, and Sri Lanka's navy said Wednesday it recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people.

The Iranian vessel that was sunk in the Indian Ocean was the Islamic Republic's "prize ship," US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a Pentagon news briefing. Hegseth said it was the first sinking of an enemy ship with a torpedo by the US since World War II.

Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath told Parliament that its navy received information that the IRIS Dena, with 180 people on board, was in distress and sinking. The island nation sent ships and air force planes on a rescue mission, he said.

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A US submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, as Washington and Israel intensified their bombardment Wednesday of Iran's security forces and other symbols of power. As the war expanded yet again, Tehran vowed to completely destroy the Middle East's military and economic infrastructure.

The tempo of the strikes on Iran was so intense that state television announced the mourning ceremony for Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the conflict, would be postponed. Millions attended the funeral of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1989.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said a torpedo from a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean Tuesday night, saying the strike was the first such attack on an enemy since World War II.

Sri Lankan authorities said 32 people were rescued from the ship, which sank of their country's coast. They said others died, without giving a number.

(AP)

At least 80 were people killed in a US submarine strike on an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka's deputy foreign minister told local television on Wednesday.

(Reuters)

The Sri Lankan Navy on Wednesday said it rescued 32 Iranian sailors from a sinking Iranian naval ship off the southern coast, while several bodies were recovered from the site.

Navy spokesperson Commander Buddhika Sampath told reporters that several bodies were also found near the location of the distress signal, though the exact number was not immediately available.

"At this point, it is difficult to give any numbers, but bodies have been found. As they were found closer to the point of distress, it is accepted that they were from the same ship," he said.

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Sri Lanka's foreign ministry said that the military had rescued 32 people on board the sinking Iranian ship. Dr. Anil Jasinghe, a top health ministry official, says one of them is in critical condition, seven are receiving emergency treatment.