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Posted on 03/05/2026 3:38:00 PM PST by Nateman
The captain of a ship of the Iranian Navy has handed his vessel over to the Sri Lankan government, a neutral party, for internment, saving the lives of his crew hours after another Iranian warship was destroyed nearby by the United States Navy.
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Smart Captain. No reason to die from the Mullahs. He has zero chance of success. Notice his crew did not object to this?
Already posted this morning.
The article did not mention anything about about the crew other than 208 officers and men. If it had been me I’d enjoy the chance for shore leave. They will probably sit out the remainder of the war on that Island unless some other neutral country offers to take them .
I did a search for Bushehr. Do you have a link to the original?
Well, at least the ship didn't Ceylon, it knew when to quit.
None of them want to eat a Mk48. Smart ... Hang out in Sri Lanka, wait for the fuss and feathers to stop ... then hope that when they get back to Iran/Persia it’s no longer run by lunatic ayatollahs.
Found it. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4369453/posts
A search for Sri Lanka pulled it up.
Smart decision
Someday (hopefully soon) this war will end and a (hopefully more free) Iran will need a navy.
Humor is not a funny business.
I like what you did there. Ceylon is delicious, nice and smooth without a hint of bitterness.
Someday (hopefully soon) this war will end and a (hopefully more free) Iran will need a navy.
Why? Responding to the last phrase.
The last time this happened was 17 December 1939. The captain chose honorable suicide and scuttled his ship in order to save the crew of the Admiral Graf Spee and prevent a state of the art vessel from falling into British hands.
On May 2, 1982, during the Falklands War, the British nuclear-powered submarine HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano. Two torpedoes struck the ship, causing it to sink in less than 30 minutes, Since Argentina had nothing to hunt submarines they kept the rest of their Navy bottled up in port. Without reinforcements Argentina lost that war.
That was the last time a submarine sank a ship until a United States submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the southern coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday.
“The captain chose honorable suicide and scuttled his ship”
No, he took the coward’s way out.
No, around 2012, a North Korean sub sank a South Korean Corvette, killing half the crew.
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