Mastodawn

I don't think the UK media have made nearly enough noise about the US Navy sinking an *unarmed* Iranian warship and then, in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions, leaving them to drown.

This is a heinous war crime which the media would be rightly up in arms about if any country that wasn't nominally an "ally" had done it.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gcii-1949/article-18/commentary/2017

#IRISDena #IranWar #WarCrimes #GenevaConventions

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groff 🇺🇦Mar 6

@statsguy
"unarmed"?

"IRIS Dena was a Moudge-class frigate launched in 2015, and was commissioned into the Iran Navy in 2021. The ship had an armament of surface-to-air and anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, and was equipped with several guns and cannons."

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Bård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)

@geoffl @statsguy

If it's the one I'm thinking of, then it was supposed to be part of a multi national exercise

That's why it was unarmed

Yes, it had all the weapons you'd expect on a warship, but nothing to arm them with